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Writers:
Serge Bramly (novel)
Jacques Fieschi (writer)
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Release Date:
23 August 2000 (France) more
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He was a man ahead of his time. His ideas on love and sex shocked his generation more
Plot:
A man prepares himself to be transferred to a detention center and rest home where he will relive one more time the highlights of his youth. full summary | add synopsis
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2 wins & 2 nominations more
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Cast

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Daniel Auteuil ... Marquis de Sade
Marianne Denicourt ... Sensible
Jeanne Balibar ... Madame Santero
Grégoire Colin ... Fournier
Isild Le Besco ... Emilie de Lancris

Jean-Pierre Cassel ... Le vicomte de Lancris
Philippe Duquesne ... Coignard
Vincent Branchet ... Chevalier de Coublier
Raymond Gérôme ... Président de Maussane
Jalil Lespert ... Augustin
Dominique Reymond ... Madame de Lancris
Sylvie Testud ... Renée de Sade
François Levantal ... Latour
Frédérique Tirmont ... Madame d'Amblet
Daniel Martin ... Monsieur Santero
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Also Known As:
De Sade (Philippines: English title)
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Runtime:
100 min | Argentina:106 min (Mar del Plata Film Festival)
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Rolling and tumbrelling, 24 August 2005
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Author: Bob Taylor (bob998@sympatico.ca) from Canada

Only one thing hampered my total enjoyment of this film: Isild le Besco, with her Asian looks, cannot possibly be the child of Jean-Pierre Cassel and Dominique Reymond. Otherwise this is far better than Kaufman's Quills as a portrait of Sade. Daniel Auteuil is always at home in costume parts (remember him as the doomed officer in The Widow of St. Pierre?) and his ease with the part is wonderful. This is a more thoughtful, more world-weary debauched aristocrat than the caricature that Geoffrey Rush gave us. My favorite scene: dinner at the prison, Sade musing about Robespierre's belief in a supreme being--would that be solid, or a gas perhaps?--as he courts Emilie, under the watchful eyes of her parents.

Benoit Jacquot has made a film that is more accessible than some he has done. There is a Bressonian austerity to some of his past films that this one thankfully lacks. The Marquis had the ability to appeal to your love of liberty and hatred for tyranny, at the same time as making you appalled when you sit down to read his novels. Jacquot knows this and plays down the writing.

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