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Mood:
- Feel GoodHumorousExciting
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Plot:
- Unlikely CoupleWomanizerOpposites AttractFall in LoveLooking for LoveLooking for SexGender BendingLove and Romance more...
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Genres:
- PeriodRomanceComedy
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Time/Period:
- 18th Century
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Place:
- ItalyVenice
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Audience:
- Date Night
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Praise:
- Award Winner
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Attitudes:
- Semi SeriousRealistic
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Casanova, 2005
English
USA
Profile of Casanova
Casanova can be described as feel good, exciting, and humorous. The plot revolves around womanizing, gender bending, and looking for sex. The main genres are romance, period, and comedy. In approach, Casanova is realistic. It is located in Venice. It takes place in the 18th century. Casanova has received attention for being an award winner. It is well suited for a date night.
Summary of Casanova
CASONOVA is loosely based on the memoirs of the writer, adventurer, and infamous lover Giacomo Casanova--themselves notably unreliable--and fortunately has no pretensions to historical realism. Instead, it's a witty, lighthearted romantic comedy, which uses its 18th century setting and renowned hero as a jumping-off point for sexy banter and ruminations on love, lust, and freedom. Directed with visual flair and wit by Lasse Hallström--a master of classy period pieces like CHOCOLAT and CIDER HOUSE RULES--the movie was filmed on location in Venice, and the stunningly gorgeous scenery is almost a character in its own right. Heath Ledger, believable and engaging here in a role that couldn't be more different from his powerhouse performance in BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, turns on all of his considerable charms here. Abandoned by his mother as a child, Casanova has grown into a lascivious yet oddly innocent young man, who pursues pleasure wholeheartedly and mistakes lust for love. His biggest concern is eluding Italy's puritanical Inquisitors, until he meets Francesca Bruni (Sienna Miller), a beauty who publishes clever pamphlets on women's rights under a pen name. In the time-honored tradition, Casanova is instantly smitten with the one woman in Venice who doesn't want anything to do with him.
The plot provides few surprises, but that is beside the point; the pleasures of CASANOVA are in its warm freewheeling tone, its sumptuous visuals, and the cheerful exuberance of its actors. In addition to Ledger's winning star turn, Lena Olin is her usual mesmerizing self as Francesca's scheming mother, and the reliably excellent Oliver Platt (as Francesca's overmatched fiancé) and Jeremy Irons (as the frustrated head Inquisitor) both deliver deft comic performances.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 25 December 2005 |
| Runtime: | 112 min |
Cast and Crew
as Casanova
as Francesca Bruni
as Pucci
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