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Casanova
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DVD Details

  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 51 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: April 25, 2006
  • Originally Released: 2005
  • Label: Touchstone / Disney

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 190,568
[A] high-spirited farce...Silly, sly and delightful.
New York Times
Jan 6, 2006
3 stars out of 5 -- [A] quite enjoyable blend of Benny Hill-esque farce and period drama, full to the brim with sexual innuendo, lavish sets and good, honest bodice-ripping.
Total Film
Jul 1, 2006
Rating: 3/5 -- The sticky sweet stuff in the middle traps history's greatest lover and slows the whole affair to a crawl.
Orlando Sentinel
Jan 6, 2006
Rating: C- -- Gets funny once it enters farce mode. Nothing special by the cast, including Ledger. Full Review
CNNRadio
Oct 8, 2009
Rating: 3/4 -- While not quite as irresistibly seductive as its title character, Casanova is the perfect cinematic one-night stand: charming, romantic and awfully easy on the eyes. Full Review
Hollywood.com
Aug 31, 2006
Rating: 2/4 -- The whimsical plot, involving Casanova's seduction of a cross-dressing feminist, isn't helped by director Lasse Hallstrom's leaden hand.
Rolling Stone
Jan 6, 2006
Rating: B+ -- A ribald, witty costume comedy filled with delightful performances and wily plot turns, this is the sort of film that makes you wonder why more films like this aren't made. Full Review
Detroit News
Jan 6, 2006

Product Description:

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.

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  • UPC: 786936288858
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