Miranda Richardson in The Night and the Moment (1994)

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A tale of ribaldry and romance set in the age of powdered wigs, The Night and the Moment (1994) stars Willem Dafoe as a writer who tries to seduce a freethinking young marquise (Lena Olin). But unknown to him, he and the marquise have a shared past of time spent incarcerated in adjacent prison cells. There’s rack and rumpery from Lena, Miranda Richardson, and Carole Richert. You’ll be grabbing your cane so much people will think you’re Voltaire!