Quills
Geoffrey Rush is a "rush" as the Marquis de Sade.
Sorry.
Rush is a fine actor and his turn as the mad, impish and cruel de Sade might be worth the price of the rental to some. I found that the performance couldn't overcome this stagey and leaden morality play about good and bad, God and sin, sex and virtue, so on and so forth. Personal distastes (films set in mad houses, the French, American actors trying to pass off as French by adopting a quasi-lilting British accent, necrophilia) also hampered my enjoyment, so I urge all to take that into consideration.
In the end, the portentuous language used to deliver home the various points are probably less obnoxious on the stage. On film, it was at times amusing, mostly dull, always predictable.
Grade: D+.
might be an interesting idea but he should have made it clearer.
