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 I came across the puppet film Marquis because we wanted to show it in the open air cinema of Bar 25. I was surprised to find out that the Marquis had a lot of bizarreness to offer, but above all he tells a funny story with a friendly main character. It's this kind of film that you can also see on a Sunday afternoon. Paris 1788, the dreaded Libertin Marquis de Sade is imprisoned in the Bastille for fornication (and the desecration of a crucifix). Alone, he has only his oversized tail with which he has stimulating conversations about art, literature and the human instincts. It is up to his genitals to present their own designs to the Marquis. Outside, the revolution develops, inside the Marquis becomes the victim of a conspiracy... The Marquis de Sade has left his mark like hardly any other radical thinker. A noble philosopher who propagates the right of the strongest (and by this means his class): the right to unrestrained pleasure. The Marquis, a ninilist, a despiser of the human, is portrayed by Henri Xhonneux and Roland Topor as the only figure of integrity. In 1989, the 200th anniversary of the Revolution, both had the idea of turning the writings of the Marquis into a cheerful puppet show. We experience actors in animal masks who perform dialogues for a mature educated bourgeoisie. Author Topor strives to be faithful to the original, so that the dialogues of the Marquis with his tail are always below the belt line. The Marquis has the faithful face of a cocker spaniel, while his tail rises steeply. Pathological sexuality, exploitation and intrigues - the Marquis' themes seem all the more bizarre as they are presented in a warm tone. Intellectually, the puppetry of Roland Topor and Henri Xhonneux is waterproof; surprisingly, the film also looks really good. Thanks to a generous budget you can see the loving masks and costumes, which were realized as a heart project. The audience in the open-air cinema stage was really intoxicated by the costumes and masks. We listened in amazement to the dialogue between dog and tail. Not only that there was enough to laugh about: With his sincere, funny manner the tail had simply moved us!