this be utterly awful crap by franco . how do he have gut to call this de sade . franco idea of sadean character be act idiot and laugh loud and talk soft and smirk . not a single blasphemy be hear and character claim to be search for pleasure ( add drunken accent ) . if franco be serious about understand anything about de sade and he wouldn not have to follow the material carefully nor show detailed endless debauchery and just get few thing right about moral and god and and lot of people would have be happy . even if we would review this movie a a romantic comedy or a big victorian era cocktail party the acting and directing and writing and music and etc just drive movie lover into despair . a a de sade adaptation this be even bad . rating negative .