Marat/Sade - DVD

Directed by Peter Brook (Lord of the Flies, King Lear, Meetings with Remarkable Men) and based on the Tony Award-winning play by Peter Weiss (Mirage), this spellbinding tale of Inchslashing power and disturbanceInch (The Film Daily) bristles with the riveting energy and InchexcellentInch (Variety) performances by the Royal Shakespeare Theatre Company, including Ian Richardson (Brazil, From Hell, Dark City) and Patrick Magee (A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon, Chariots of Fire). Brimming with raving lunatics, crackling whips, catatonic seizures - and even musical interludes - Marat/Sade is an Inchexciting, overwhelming [and] stunning tour de forceInch (Boxoffice)! When notorious social critic - and inmate of Charenton's asylum for the insane - the Marquis de Sade (Magee), stages a play about the murder of the French Revolution's Jean-Paul Marat, the production takes on an alarming life of it's own. And as tempers flare, arguments rage and chaos engulfs both the sane and the mad, the inmates finally turn against their keepers in a brilliant, breathtaking and completely bizarre conclusion... that will leave you raving for more! Clifford Rose (Pirates of the Caribbean On Stranger Tides, TV's The Secret Army), Glenda Jackson (Women in Love, A Touch of Class, Sunday Bloody Sunday), Freddie Jones (Dune, The Elephant Man, Krull), and Michael Williams (Henry V, Eagle in a Cage) complete the cast.

The stories of two troubled marriages-philandering contractor Lucky (Nick Nolte) and former actress Phyllis (Julie Christie), and job-obsessed Jeffrey (Jonny Lee Miller) and wife Marianne (Lara Flynn Boyle), who wants to start a family-come together when Lucky seduces Marianne, and Phyllis and Jeffrey, unaware of their Inchconnection,Inch have an affair of their own. Writer/director Alan Rudolph's romantic comedy/drama co-stars Jay Underwood, Domini Blythe. 119 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack English LPCM stereo; Subtitles English (SDH); audio commentary; interviews; theatrical trailer. Region Free

1959. Guilty of a double-murder, a man is beheaded. At the bottom of the basket, the head of the dead man tells his story everything was going so well. Admired priest, magnificent lover, his earthly paradise seemed to have no end. Until love madness took over.