Advantages: For lovers of the film, the period or the music of John Barry. Disadvantages: A bit too easy listening for some
for admirers of the movie, the period or the music of John Barry.
Track Listing:
1. Everybody's Talkin' Harry Nilsson
2. Joe Buck Rides Again John Barry
3. A Famous Myth The Groop
4. Fun City John Barry
5. He Quit Me Leslie Miller
6. Jungle Gym at the Zoo Elephant's Memory
7. Midnight Cowboy John Barry
8. Old Man Willow Elephant's Memory
9. Florida Fantasy John Barry
10. Tears and Joys The Groop 
11. Science Fiction John Barry 
12. Everybody's Talkin' Harry Nilsson ...
Advantages: Acting, Storyline Disadvantages: Not to everyone's taste
The story for Quills is set around a myriad of characters in the Charenton Asylum, a mental institution during the newly established Napoleonic regime of the early nineteenth century. Chiefly, the film is about the controversial French writer, the Marquis de Sade (Geoffrey Rush) and his writings of the time. While the film could have taken the route of many period films by tracing his life as a child through to an adult, Quills presents the final stages of his life. Incarcerated uner the First Empire for his illicit works in the asylum run by the Abbe Coulmier (Joaquin Phoenix), Quills spins a superbly constructed narrative around the Marquis, mutual love interest Madeleine (Kate Winslet), his many inmates and the Doctor Royer Collard (Michael Cain). Beyond the immediate conflicts and hypocrisies that run rampant throughout the film ...
Cheerfulchap 01.06.2003
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Advantages: Great historical insight, good characters and depth Disadvantages: Dark descriptive and indepth
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Nominated for 2 Academy Awards
''Winslet and Phoenix create real fire'' Rolling Stone
''Stunning devastating?. Dark'' Film Review
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Paris, 1794. Begins with a story of a prisoner during execution following to a brief introduction to the situation/location of the Marquis de Sade.
Historically the Marquis was known as Donatien Alphonse François (1740-1814), whose most famous piece written was 'Justine' (now a film itself)
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The story brings the audience to the lavishly decorated prison cell of the Marquis in the Mental Asylum of 'Charenton' in France where he worked on an array of books and volumes, many which he didn't complete and many which have never been published or produced.
However, this film depicts the Marquis in the final 20 ...
woof45 08.12.2005
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