In today’s Star, a columnist asked famous celebrities what their favorite romantic movies are. Of course, we get the usual Sleepless in Seattle, A Love Affair, Gone With the Wind, and perennial favorite, Casablanca. Well and nice, but I will never change my opinion that the most romantic movie of all time is Quills.
In Quills Geoffrey Rush plays Marquis de Sade, a writer who is a purveyor of all sorts of sexual perversion, Joaquin Phoenix plays a priest who aims to change him, and Kate Winslet is the chambermaid in classic 18th century chambermaid lace and spilling breasts fetish costume. The priest, of course, has the hots for the chambermaid and the sexual tension is driving everyone nuts, but he couldn’t allow himself to fall for her. Enter Marquis de Sade and his ideas of sexual liberation. To get to the meaty part, Kate drowns in a mental institution and Joaquin wails in anger. In his dream he finally fulfills his sexual longing– he walks towards the naked body of the dead Kate lying on a church altar and fucks, ahem, fornicates, with her. Very dramatic, but Marquis de Sade gets the best line in the movie– "I will fuck you in every orifice in your body, and carve orifices where there are none!!!"
In the end Marquis de Sade gets his comeuppance by eating his faith–literally. He eats the rosary Joaquin was dangling on him and chokes on it.
I recommended this movie as a post-Physics 71 exam to Therese and Kaka 7 years ago. They never forgave me.
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