Quills 2000

Quills is a 2000 period film directed by Philip Kaufman and adapted from the Obie award-winning 1995 play by Doug Wright, who also wrote the original screenplay. Inspired by the life and work of the Marquis de Sade, Quills re-imagines the last years of the Marquis's incarceration in the insane asylum at Charenton. It stars Geoffrey Rush as de Sade, Kate Winslet as laundress Madeleine "Maddie" LeClerc, Joaquin Phoenix as the Abbé de Coulmier, and Michael Caine as Dr. Royer-Collard.

Plot

In Paris, during the Reign of Terror, the incarcerated Marquis de Sade pens a story about Mademoiselle Renard, a young aristocrat who meets him.

author	Doug Wright
award	National Board of Review Award for Best Film National Board of Review: Top Ten Films
contentLocation	France
director	Philip Kaufman
editor	Peter Boyle
genre	drama thriller
keywords	abbé de coulmier abbé du coulmier alienist antoine-athanase royer-collard black market blind mother break out charenton clothe confine decorate end hasty marriage help iron maiden justine kill last rites marquis de sade napoleon napoléon i bonaparte print shop provoke psychiatry publish pyromania reign of terror royer-collard run self-flagellation the misfortunes of virtue wedding night whips himself write young lovers
musicBy	Stephen Warbeck
nomination	Academy Award for Best Actor Academy Award for Best Costume Design Academy Award for Best Production Design
producer	Julia Chasman Nick Wechsler Peter Kaufman
productionCompany	Industry Entertainment Walrus & Associates
publisher	Fox Searchlight Pictures
recordedAt	London Pinewood Studios
theme	biographical drama erotic thriller independent