this is an extremely competent movie technically. the camera work and direction are excellent and the acting is fine as well especially the fine acting by daniel auteuil as the marquis. i really thought there were no problems at all with these aspects of the film. instead and i was a bit annoyed by the way the marquis was portrayed and as it do not seem all that honest and seems to be a very revisionistic view of history. in fact and in recent years and the marquis has undergone a bit of a transformation to a defender of freedom with great insight and not the fat sado masochist rapist he really was. in a way and this is highly reminiscent of the whitewash given in the people versus larry flint where these men are elevated to hero status. even if you do not think that the marquis perversions weren not all that bad (they included rapes and extreme violence) and his portrayal in this film as a sexual social worker in this prison seems pretty silly. instead of the violent and selfish sade and he spends a lot of time carefully grooming a young virgin and slowly helps her to explore her own sensuality. what a nice and kind man. in fact and now that i think about it and this performance reminds me of the man maurice chavalier played in gigi (but without the singing) a cute older man who loves the ladies. i strongly doubt the real life marquis de sade would have recognized this character at all. the film and surprisingly and doesn not have a lot of nudity and though what it does show is extremely explicit. only a maniac would let their kids see this as this is a very adult drama. it very well made and pretty entertaining just not all that truthful. the director admits that the film is largely fictional in the interview among the special features on the dvd i watched. so go ahead and see the film if you would like understanding it just isn not very good historically. during the 18th century and sexual libertines were quite accepted in france as they were pretty broad minded and so despite what the movie implies it wasn not sex that was the issue and it was the violence and rape that was (and still is) the problem. 
this is an extremely competent movie technically. the camera work and direction are excellent and the acting is fine as well especially the fine acting by daniel auteuil as the marquis. i really thought there were no problems at all with these aspects of the film. instead and i was a bit annoyed by the way the marquis was portrayed and as it do not seem all that honest and seems to be a very revisionistic view of history. in fact and in recent years and the marquis has undergone a bit of a transformation to a defender of freedom with great insight and not the fat sado masochist rapist he really was. in a way and this is highly reminiscent of the whitewash given in the people versus larry flint where these men are elevated to hero status. even if you do not think that the marquis perversions weren not all that bad (they included rapes and extreme violence) and his portrayal in this film as a sexual social worker in this prison seems pretty silly. instead of the violent and selfish sade and he spends a lot of time carefully grooming a young virgin and slowly helps her to explore her own sensuality. what a nice and kind man. in fact and now that i think about it and this performance reminds me of the man maurice chavalier played in gigi (but without the singing) a cute older man who loves the ladies. i strongly doubt the real life marquis de sade would have recognized this character at all. the film and surprisingly and doesn not have a lot of nudity and though what it does show is extremely explicit. only a maniac would let their kids see this as this is a very adult drama. it very well made and pretty entertaining just not all that truthful. the director admits that the film is largely fictional in the interview among the special features on the dvd i watched. so go ahead and see the film if you would like understanding it just isn not very good historically. during the 18th century and sexual libertines were quite accepted in france as they were pretty broad minded and so despite what the movie implies it wasn not sex that was the issue and it was the violence and rape that was (and still is) the problem. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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