![]() He greatly admired Rousseau, an author his jailers refused to let him read. Sade, who died two hundred years ago this December, is unquestionably an Enlightenment figure. The Enlightenment has come to mean reason, rationality, science, humanism, but that was never the whole story of the era. Our story of the 18th Century – not just in France but also in its fellow child of the age, the United States – can sometimes be a little one-sided, a little deceptive. Both should allow viewers to think more deeply about Sade’s time and ours, and how thoroughly the one informs the other. Just around the corner, the Musée des Lettres et Manuscrits is presenting an exhibition of Sade’s letters and books, including the manuscript for his audacious and stomach-turning novel The 120 Days of Sodom. ![]() Later this month the Musée d’Orsay opens Sade: Attacking the Sun, an ambitious new exhibition that rereads the history of modern art through the lens of his radical writings. Sade, rediscovered but still widely misunderstood, is the subject of two exhibitions in Paris that offer a new chance to rediscover one of the most darkly influential figures of European culture. Any diversion from his true nature was, for the marquis, equivalent to death. Sade, an unstoppable libertine, was in the middle of what would be an 11-year prison sentence, but he would not recant his principles or his tastes to get out of jail. It could only be one or the other for the most extreme author of the 18th Century. ![]() PLEASE NOTE: This is an NTSC (USA/JAPAN format) Region 0 DVD.“Either kill me or take me like this, for I will not change,” wrote the imprisoned Marquis de Sade to his wife in 1783. ![]() With Koo Stark, Lydia Lisle, Martin Potter, Katherine Kath, Hope Jackman, Barry McGinn UK 1977 Colour 97 min 1.66:1 1920x1080p Monoīased on the Novel by the Marquis de Sade Mastered in HD from the uncensored 35mm negative, previously unreleased ![]() JUSTINE is the first feature film credit of cinematographer Roger Deakins, who later shot such modern American classics as The Shawshank Redemption, O Brother, Where Art Thou? and No Country for Old Men. Royal plaything koo Stark stars as a virtuous innocent whose chosen path of goodness is thwarted as every turn by her cunning and amoral sister, Juliette (Lydia Lisle), whose debauched lifestyle is her only happiness. NOTE: This title does not ship the the UK, any orders placed in error will be refunded please see the UK DVD section.īased on the Marquis de Sade’s 1791 novel Justine: The Misfortunes of Virtue, Chris Boger’s visually sumptuous film is a dark tale of sexual depravity and Sadean excess. ![]()
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