Perturbing, hilarious, seductive. Great acting! It's simply an excellent film.

Underrated. We need a blu ray version as well!!

The best filmmaking debut ever from Doug Wright!

Exceptional acting, particularly Geoffrey Rush populating a film that is literate, erotic, and yearning to be heard. The message is that we are all expressions of natures and to live most successfully we must understand that.

It's more erotic than any erotic movies you've seen so far. The sadist in SM is so perverted that it originated from the word "Marquis of Sadi". Had he met a masochist, he would have enjoyed enormous erotic kinky sex.

Sometimes a tough watch but well worth it especially for Rush's scary performance.

Though disgusting at times, this movie is BRILLIANT, with excellent performances (especially that of Geoffrey Rush as the Marquis de Sade, who is my favorite character in the film), and great story!! I loved it!!

a remarkably new dramatic version of de sade's story.

I'd been needing to re-watch this for years as I was drunk and reconciling with my now-wife when I watched it the first time. My main takeaways this time were that Joaquin was very Frodo-like, with some of his scenes (including the weird sex one) having Shire-like music playing, and Geoffrey's performance is surely among the best ever in a movie. The plot was odd in that most of his shenanigans were abetted despite the ramifications being obvious and predictable. Caine's character so purely lacked scruples that I couldn't even be mad at him for it. The movie as a whole was far, far better than I remembered it being. Kudos!

Worth it for Rush's performance alone (maybe his best). Winslet is always good. Movie theme is dark, not for everyone

This was really good. I liked it a lot

A waste of film. Miss it.

It's a sensual and disturbing affair with a cast that will blow your socks off.

The good performances, particularly Geoffrey Rush, can't distract from the incessant inaccuracies as well as the unwillingness to truly get into Marquis De Sade's, well, sadistic extremes.

So well written. A fun movie. I was pleasantly surprised.

Great story and wonderful acting. Geoffrey Rush as the Marquis de Sade is NOT to be missed! He is fabulous!

As desperate to shock as it is blunt in communicating its social commentary, Quills mistakes obvious stabs at satire that fall flat for intelligent criticism, attempting to condemn hypocritical aspects of social mores while simultaneously making several missteps in regards of the portrayal of violence against women and those with mental disabilities (forfeiting the moral high ground it purports to reclaim in the process). Despite these problems, it's largely well-acted, and comes with the added benefit of providing the opportunity to look at Joaquin Phoenix's face for a while.

Set in the period after The French Revolution. The final years in the life of the Marquis De Sade in a Church:Insane Asylum. Dark and disturbing at times. Ultimately a struggle for the Freedom of Self Expression. The film teeters between Healthy Sexuality and Sexual Perversion, Sexual Expression and Religious Sexual Repression. Ultimately leading to madness.

good film with a weird ending

Jeffrey Rush steals the show here!