De Sade
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- 1994
- 1h 25m
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Buck Adams' movie for Sin City does little with the history of the Marquis de Sade and is virtually forgotten 30 years later. Yet it does have solid sex scenes and some style, just hampered by a stupid script.
The approach is dead-serious and boring, with poor acting resulting from dialogue not resembling colloquial speech. Jon Dough gets the title role and is merely pompous. A modern-day story set in 1995 goes nowhere, with a bit of BDSM lite hardly worthy of the title.
I was especially impressed with the glamorous styling of star Holly Body, who looks terrific throughout the picture. The story involving her best friend Melissa Hill is ridiculous and interrupted midway through by a fantasy (with weak SPFX) appearance of De Sade, who takes Hill magically away to his dungeon for mainly sex (plus a mild application of his handy riding crop). A scene from the revolutionary's novels is read aloud earlier by Hill, and acted out in 1995 by voyeur Tony Tedeschi, who has two lesbian prostitutes (Misty Rain and Rebecca Lord) make love for him to watch -it's strictly filler. The opportunity to display the Marquis's ideas and revolutionary activities is muffed by director Buck.
The approach is dead-serious and boring, with poor acting resulting from dialogue not resembling colloquial speech. Jon Dough gets the title role and is merely pompous. A modern-day story set in 1995 goes nowhere, with a bit of BDSM lite hardly worthy of the title.
I was especially impressed with the glamorous styling of star Holly Body, who looks terrific throughout the picture. The story involving her best friend Melissa Hill is ridiculous and interrupted midway through by a fantasy (with weak SPFX) appearance of De Sade, who takes Hill magically away to his dungeon for mainly sex (plus a mild application of his handy riding crop). A scene from the revolutionary's novels is read aloud earlier by Hill, and acted out in 1995 by voyeur Tony Tedeschi, who has two lesbian prostitutes (Misty Rain and Rebecca Lord) make love for him to watch -it's strictly filler. The opportunity to display the Marquis's ideas and revolutionary activities is muffed by director Buck.
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