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Show FEBRUARY 7, 2001 B3 tere ye ‘WASATCH COUNTY COURIER "Where You'll Want To Bring Your Friends | @SMAC was REVIEW $16 % oe c <0 1 Pw Real Estate DENISE PECK A leader in Sales in A Sadist for the Ages - _Wasaich County since 1988 54-1199 #Email me at denise@sold. wardieygmac.com open- -heartedly caters to his every whim; a buxom, virginal admirer, entranced by his prose and drawn to his unfettered sexuality (his willing © DIRECTED BY PHILIP KAUFMAN. WRITTEN BY DOUG WRIGHT, BASED ON HIS PLAY OF THE consort in his illicit publishing gambit); SAME NAME. STARRING GEOFFREY RUSH, the ego-gratifying rush from an KATE WINSLET, JOAQUIN PHOENIX AND ~ ~ unseen, adoring public, the spectacular “MICHAEL CAINE. , setting of a full-blown madhouse with residual trappings of medieval cruelty, . Review by Paul Swenson plus a supporting cast of unhinged sycophants (inspired by his brazendirector who succeeds in mak- Great Gifts ¢ Home Accents & Decor ° Framed Prints “Quills kek STARS ing his audience identify with a does reprehensible figure and it with flair and All That Stuff In The Barn 128 West 100 North (Actoss From Tennis Court) Midway, Utah 84049 45965405889 - LOADED WITH UPGRADES | Newer 4 Bed ¢ 2.5 Bath w/Views! Extensive Oak § Flooring & Cabinetry ¢ Formal Living & Dining RmsPlantation Shutters Fully Landscaped* Fenced & Sprinklered w/Garden e 3 Car Oversized Garage Fabulous Price of $259, 000 ness)—willing players in the undignified theatricals he is wont to mount. We know a snake must soon enter this ominous garden of ater from the Hon 118 Sout : Mt raffish imagination delights, and its spellbinding malig- may have tapped into his own hidden vein of sadism. The word, of course, minor excesses of the wildly -exces- sive life of the 18th and 19th Century satyr, the Marquis de Sade, whose name spawned the word “sadist.” fatay : ‘Heber ask nancy must be of a contrasting design. As Royer-Collard, the cold and calculating | physician that - Napoleon Boneparte sends to take over the asy- COUNTRY LIVING AND > CITY CONVENIENC Outstanding 360 degree views, meticulously cared for approx. 4060 sq ft, 4-5 bdrms, 3 1/2 baths, 3 family rooms, home office, workshop, neutral colors, oak kitchen, crown molding located on approx 1 acre horse property. Offered at $389,000. is apropos to Philip Kaufman’s Quills, | lum after a book of de Sade’s devilish- since the movie focuses on. the “ ly diverting prose comes into the emperor’s possession, Michael Caine delivers one of his most controlled and chilling performances. ° -Kaufman’s purpose. is to different? ; : ate between de Sade’s - open. and unapologetic lechery and cruelty, and Royer-Collard’s hypocrisy, self-right- eousness and misogyny. They are both sadists, but of a different stripe. While . One doesn’t have to be a masochist, however, to appreciate or even enjoy what Kaufman does with this highly selective slice of a manipulative madman’s life, since he makes the character complex enough that we can’t fully Royer-Collard eliminates de- Sade’s perks and strips him of his writing materials, he brings his virtual’ child -* COUNTRY FRESH2 ACRE “MINI RANCH” With inspiring views this level, fully fenced & (vinyl & electric) property has it all! Newer, sunny home features 4 bdrms, 2 1/2 bath, vaulted great _rm w/ gourmet oak kitchen, 2 rock fireplace, gas ae ard more. Priced {0 sell atLege 000. bride Sitione (Amelia Warfer) into hig a+ | historically ~ Trampolines ¢ Playground Sets ¢ Kayaks discount him, nor be fully drawn into | own grandly refurbished living quarhis salacious embrace. That de Sade “ters, where he bars the doors and winwas a passionate, obscenely witty and ‘dows and virtually rapes her on her highly literate man is probably not ~ wedding night. “She is a rare bird and 1 open to question. But it is playwright intend to keep her caged, ” he tells the Doug Wright’s layered screenplay and young architect and builder of this Geoffrey palace/prison, who will soon: awaken” Simone ‘to- the pleaspres of s SEX. sans sadism. Rush’s exuberant perform- ance that endow the character with a spark of credible humanity and life. The story the film spins purports — _. Madeleine and Caine are hath: to emanate from latein De Sade’ s life - ainbinione ‘and: somewhat stereotypi: when he was incarcerated ini Frrance’s cal figures, albeit beautifully and subtly Charenton insane asylum. Here he is played by. Winslett and Phoenix. ensconced in a strangely sumptuous Madeleine is an instinctive liberal: who ) cell, stocked with books from his priidentifies with, and is aroused by the ‘Vale library, sacramental wine and a - Marquis’ thirst for free expression. The. wardrobe of fine clothes. He is also Chastity vows of the passionately relisupplied with the materials and implegious Coulmier, a man motivated by. ments of his trade— paper and a colkindness, are sorely. tested by his. — lection of exquisite quills with which: attraction to Madeleine. But it is Royerto inscribe his explicit sexual and vio- Collard who ultimately corrupts him. lent fantasies. This inexhaustible Coulmier develops a taste for sadism gush of self-expression is intended himself. “I’m not. the first man with not only for his own amusement. Like blood on my hands_ in the name of | all writers, de Sade craves an audiGod,” he says. ence, and not unlike his far less tal- - 4 ‘ é 4 A A wine 7 > & RESTAURANT | ae *§ AY ALL YOUR VALENTINE - DREAMS COME TRUE ... . Romantic Fins Dintnc ELEGANT GUEST Rooms: ENCHANTING EuROPEAN INN Kaufman’s most extravagant ae ented modern pretenders, he i is able © dient is to set de Sade up as a martyr to: free expression, who uses his own finto find one. In these endeavors, he has a bonet gernails, blood and excrement to. icence of benefactors. His estranged scratch out his feverish visions once | wife provides the monthly stipend that his ink and implements have. been conkeeps him in high style. fiscated. Because the director of such_ Coulmier (Joaquin Phoenix), the widely diverse pictures.as Invasion of handsome priest and young, idealistic the Body Snatchers, The. Right Stuff and asylum carétaker, supplies barrels of _ The Unbearable Lightness of Being leavink and reams of paper as cheap thera- ens his own disturbing: vision with py to exorcise his. demons. And humor and a respect for paradox, Madeleine (Kate Winslett), the cham- “Quills penetrates both our intellect and. bermaid daughter of an ancient launour emotions. For that reason, the dress who has spent her life toiling in movie stands apari from such failed the asylum, gathers his manuscripts attempts to aggrandize the mentally: each time she collects his bed linen, miscreant (Jim Carrey as Andy - smuggling them out of the compound Kaufman in Man in the Moon) and the to a waiting horseman at the gate who (Woody proudly — misogynistic will carry them to his scheming pubHarrelson in The People vs. Larry -lisher and a decadent readership. Flynt), two pictures that made director What more could a high-born hedoMilos Foreman chief apologist for male nist desire?—a man of the cloth who sexual arrogance a Blue Boar nn fd Boas Warn SPRINGS Reena ern at ce UTAH 435 654-1400 - |