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06/24/06
Sade (2002)
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Reviews Counted:30
Fresh:20
Rotten:10
Average Rating:6.3/10
Theatrical Release:Apr 26, 2002 Limited
Synopsis: Benoit Jacquot's SADE is a provocative historical drama set during the French Revolution starring Daniel Auteuil as the notorious Marquis de Sade. The film also stars the striking young actress... [More]
Starring: Daniel Auteuil, Marianne Denicourt, Jeanne Balibar, Gregoire Colin
Director: Benoit Jacquot
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06/06/08
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12/10/01
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06/14/02
Dialogue-heavy and too cerebral for its own good -- or, at any rate, too cerebral for its racy subject matter.
04/04/01
Lacks dramatic punch and depth.
06/07/02
Top CriticToo bland and fustily tasteful to be truly prurient.
04/23/02
Top CriticThis Sade is hardly a perverse, dangerous libertine and agitator -- which would have made for better drama. He's just a sad aristocrat in tattered finery, and the film seems as deflated as he does.
08/29/02
Top CriticSade achieves the near-impossible: It turns the Marquis de Sade into a dullard.
05/03/02
Top CriticThe Marquis de Sade couldn't have been as dull a person as this film makes him out to be.
11/15/02
It's a decent glimpse into a time period, and an outcast, that is no longer accessible, but it doesn't necessarily shed more light on its subject than the popular predecessor.
05/08/02
Despite Auteuil's performance, it's a rather listless amble down the middle of the road, where the thematic ironies are too obvious and the sexual politics too smug.
03/22/02
The movie fails to portray its literarily talented and notorious subject as anything much more than a dirty old man.
08/08/02
The movie is as far as you can get from racy, to the point where it almost stops the blood flow to your brain; it has a dull, costumey feel.
05/03/02
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12/06/05
That the film opens with maggots crawling on a dead dog is not an out of place metaphor.
04/26/02
It is intensely personal and yet -- unlike Quills -- deftly shows us the temper of the times.
04/04/01
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07/27/08
Sade is an engaging look at the controversial eponymous and fiercely atheistic hero.
04/30/02
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08/03/05
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