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In early 19th-century France, the Marquis de Sade is confined to an asylum where his forbidden writings continue to circulate beyond its walls. As the authorities tighten control, a clash unfolds between the Marquis’ unyielding imagination, the reformist ideals of the Abbé in charge, and the repressive measures of a doctor sent to silence him. Desire, power, and censorship collide in a battle over freedom of expression.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers drawn to provocative period dramas about artistic transgression, erotic power struggles, and the hypocrisy of respectable institutions.
- Tone
- cerebral, bleak, darkly comic
- Payoff
- catharsis, reflection
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- intense
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- freedom of expression, censorship, desire and power, institutional control, moral hypocrisy
- Setting
- early nineteenth century, repressive psychiatric asylum and Parisian society
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