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...Marquis" examines the work of the Marquis de Sade, the French nobleman with a legendary penchant for bizarre sexual escapades. Sade's writings detail every form of sexual perversion and violent fixation conceivable. Few besides the surrealists and the existentialists credit him with any great contribution to literature, but "Marquis" derives both political and psychological insights from his legacy...
...course, in adapting Sade's work for film, director Henri Xhonneux faces an obvious dilemma: how can one possibly depict the contents of a book like 120 Days of Sodom without the result being banned in every country on the globe? Xhonneux's solution is to hide his actors under elaborate animatronic masks not unlike those used in Jim Henson's "The Dark Crystal." No human faces appear in the film. And though Miss Piggy wasn't above making a few amorous overtures to Kermit, she surely never dreamed of carrying on as the pigs, dogs and cows of "Marquis...
...British do it? Perhaps by not pigeonholing musicians and by giving them a wider reign in the studio. Says Sade, the British chanteuse whose Diamond Life album in 1984 signaled the British knack for soul: "There's less consumerism in England and more idealism in the record business than in America...
...intensely seductive, almost mesmerizing quality in her music has helped Helen Folosade Adu, the Anglo-Nigerian singer better known as SADE (pronounced Shah-day), sell more than 22 million copies of her first three albums. But the sameness of Sade's smooth, samba-scented love songs has always verged on monotony. Now, after a four-year silence, the singer is back with Love Deluxe (Epic), an album that is virtually indistinguishable from her previous ones. The final track, an overly long instrumental, underscores the fact that Sade has no new ideas. Anyone who owns an earlier Sade album would...
...iniquitatis. We cannot know evil systematically or scientifically. It is brutal or elusive, by turns vivid and vague, horrible and subtle. We can know it poetically, symbolically, historically, emotionally. We can know it by its works. But evil is sly and bizarre. Hitler was a vegetarian. The Marquis de Sade opposed capital punishment...