Quills
Date: 2000
Director: Philip Kaufman
Production Company: Searchlight Pictures, Industry Entertainment, Walrus & Associates
Stars: Geoffrey Rush, Kate Winslet, Joaquin Phoenix, Michael Caine
Location(s): Bedfordshire, Oxfordshire, Surrey
Region(s): South East M-Q
Storyline:
In a Napoleonic era insane asylum, an inmate, the irrepressible Marquis De Sade, fights a battle of wills against a tyrannically prudish doctor.
Additional Information:
Screen captures by Neil Webster
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18th Century France? No, Catte Street, 20th Century Oxford!
The guillotine had gone by the time I got there. (SR)
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Madeleine (Kate Winslet) smuggling De Sade's (Geoffrey Rush) manuscripts out of Charenton Asylum via horseback courier. Luton Hoo House, now a hotel and spa, Luton, Bedfordshire, which also appeared in 'Portrait of Clare' 50 years earlier as well as 'A Shot in the Dark', 'Never Say Never Again' and 'Four Weddings and a Funeral'.
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De Sade's printed books being sold illicitly in the marketplace.
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Readings for the illiterate. Oriel Street, Oxford with St. Mary's Tower to the left.
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Simone (Amelia Warner) leaves the Convent with future husband Royer-Collard (Michael Caine). Front Gate, New College, New College Lane, Oxford in Oxfordshire.
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Simone and Royer-Collard on route. Five-arch Bridge, Virginia Water, Windsor Great Park, Surrey.
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Royer-Collard and Simone arriving at his Château. Mentmore Towers, Mentmore, Leighton Buzzard.