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Marquis de Sade (film)

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Marquis de Sade
Home video cover art
Directed byGwyneth Gibby
Written byCraig J. Nevius
StarringNick Mancuso
Production
companies
Distributed byShowtime (US)
Release date
  • October 19, 1996 (1996-October-19) (Showtime)
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Running time
93 mins
CountriesUSA
Russia
LanguageEnglish

Marquis de Sade is a 1996 American film about Marquis de Sade. It was part financed by Roger Corman (who had done some uncredited directing on a 1969 biopic of de Sade) and screened on Roger Corman Presents.

It is also known as Dark Prince: Intimate Tales of Marquis de Sade.[2]

The film was shot in Moscow.[3]

Premise

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A woman, Justine, searches for her lost sister, Juliette, and encounters the Marquis se Sade.

Cast

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Reception

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According to one academic, the film gives a more sympathetic depiction of de Sade than usual, presenting him "as a roguish, swashbuckling anti-hero; a red-blooded, flamboyant and slightly ridiculous epicurean, whose pleasures are curtailed by his incarceration in the Bastille, facilitated by his outraged mother-in-law... He is presented as a Three Musketeers-style hero."[4]

Psychotronic Video said "Mancuso is too good for this project and has lots of (too much actually) dialog."[3]

References

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  1. ^ "TV Guide". Showtime Guide. October 1996. p. 14E.
  2. ^ "New releases". Citizen Register. 6 November 1997. p. 89.
  3. ^ a b "Reviews". Psychotronic Videos. No. 24. 1997. p. 15.
  4. ^ Krzywinska, Tanya (2006). Sex and the cinema. p. 206.
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