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SADE
Series: For the Love of Movies: The Cinema of Benoît Jacquot
Director: Benoît Jacquot, Country: France, Release: 2000, Runtime: 100

Jacquot’s fictional portrait of France’s most revered rebel is set during an unknown period in the author’s life: 1794, at the height of the Terror, when Sade was sent to Picpus, a sanitarium and aristocratic way station on the road to the guillotine. If the film was initially misunderstood, it was partly for the reasons Jacquot articulated — this deft, relaxed, quietly ingratiating film has none of the rhetorical excesses and camouflaged prurience of the ridiculous Quills. Even more to the point, this is another of Jacquot’s explorations of a young woman’s consciousness, in this case the wholly fictional character of a Viscount’s daughter named Emilie (Isild Le Besco), in the guise of a historical film. Not that Daniel Auteuil’s brilliant performance doesn’t put Sade in a new light — a witty, utterly charming, erudite artist with a passionate interest in humanity.




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