10. Quills (2000)
Joaquin’s calm, reflective, Abbe du Coulmier is tasked with silencing Geoffrey Rush’s infamous, vocal, Marquis de Sade, set in the Charenton asylum for the insane and the backdrop of Paris’ 18th Century Reign of Terror in this Philip Kaufman film. Not for the faint of heart, this warts and all recount warns of the danger of denying a writer their tools when there are stories to be told.
