Marquis

VHS, Not Rated, 88 minutes, First Run Features Home Video

"Marquis" is based on the writings of the "Marquis de Sade", and conceived by satirist-caricaturist Roland Topor (the French Jim Henson). Managing to be both visually elegant and wildly raunchy, Jami Bernard of The New York Post says "Marquis" is, "probably the strangest, most imaginatively off-beat film you may see this year." Set in the Bastille prison in 1789 on the eve of the French Revolution, the "Marquis," an aristocratic canine imprisoned for blasphemy, engages Colin, his animated, erect penis, in philosophic debates about art, politics, and sexual freedom. Surrounded by a barnyard cornucopia: the prison governor (a masochistic rooster), his mistress (Juliette, a whip-wielding filly), a lascivious prison guard (a rat) and the victim of a royal rape (Justine, a cow), the "Marquis" is at the center of the storm of the cultural and political revolution.