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It is quite easy for serious filmgoers to get excited over the new drama Quills. For one, it is the first piece of cinema with substance Hollywood has churned out of late and, second, it marks the return of director Philip Kaufman, the man responsible for two of the best films of the 1980s if not of all time; The Right Stuff and The Unbearable Lightness Of Being.

A movie filled with intelligence, brilliant acting and some wicked jabs of dark humor, Quills is a tour-de-force of filmmaking that will stay with you for quite some time. Based on the stage play by Doug Wright, Quills takes place at the turn of the 18th Century in France. The Marquis De Sade (Geoffrey Rush) spends the remaining days of his life inside a mental institution called Charenton, where he furiously writes away with quills and parchment his tales of graphic sexual perversity. Thanks to a virginal linen girl named Madeleine (Kate Winslet) who smuggles his writing out of the asylum for him, his work is all the rage on the streets of Paris. It certainly isn't the rage (but certainly evokes a great deal of rage) with the country's authorities, which send the hypocritical Dr Royer-Collard (Michael Caine) to Charenton to "cure" Sade of his wicked ways.

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