Quills (2000)
There are no bad words… only bad deeds.
Genre : Drama
Runtime : 2H 4M
Director : Philip Kaufman
Writer : Doug Wright
Synopsis
A nobleman with a literary flair, the Marquis de Sade lives in a madhouse where a beautiful laundry maid smuggles his erotic stories to a printer, defying orders from the asylum's resident priest. The titillating passages whip all of France into a sexual frenzy, until a fiercely conservative doctor tries to put an end to the fun.
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