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Rush gives a tour-de-force performance as history's most infamous sexual adventurer, the Marquis de Sade.
A nobleman with a literary flair, the Marquis lives in a madhouse where a beautiful laundry maid (Winslet) smuggles his erotic stories to a printer, defying orders from the asylum's resident priest (Phoenix). The titillating passages whip all of France into a sexual frenzy, until a fiercely conservative doctor (Caine) tries to put an end to the fun, inadvertently stoking the excitement to a fever pitch.
This is great movie! The fact that it is based in an asylum gives it humor. It is exceptionally weird, making it quite a unique movie, separating it form others that are based on a certain time period. And the ending well if it would have had any other ending it would have been normal! Wow not every movie has a happy ending....who would have known.....
Although in my opinion it was a happy ending