Eye Candy #59 - "Marat/Sade"

Marat/Sade: One of the most sincerely disturbing films ever made, this play-within-a-film. It's a single set: a large cell at Charenton asylum in France, circa July 1793. The French Revolution is in full swing. The playwright of the play-within-a-film is the Marquis de Sade and covers the murder of Jean Paul Marat, a French politician and revolutionary slain in his bathtub by his political opponents. The audience for whom the play is staged is the head of the mental asylum, Abbe Coulmier, his family and guests. And the actors...the inmates of Charenton asylum. Twisted, wild, and wholly original, it's hard to stop watching this film. It's a lot like watching a car wreck - you shouldn't witness it, but even when you do, you can't look away. Quite a few name actors here, including Ian Richardson, Freddie Jones, Glenda Jackson, as the inmates. Really, one of the best stage-to-film adaptations of all-time.