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| View Larger Image | Casanova
by Adam Merims, Betsy Beers, Gary Levinsohn, Guido Cerasuolo, Jeffrey Hatcher, Kimberly Simi, Michael Cristofer
Directed by Lasse Hallström
Starring Heath Ledger, Sienna Miller, Jeremy Irons, Oliver Platt, Lena Olin
Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Touchstone
| | List Price: | $14.99 | | Price: | $10.49 | | You Save: | $4.50 (30%) |  | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours | | | | | Sales Rank: | 4101 | | Release Date: | April 25, 2006 | | Rated: |  | | Running Time: | 111 minutes | | Theatrical Release: | December 25, 2005 | | Studio: | Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Touchstone |
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Heath Ledger, Academy Award(R) nominee (Best Actor, BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, 2005), stars in the scandalously funny adventure CASANOVA. After a lifetime of women falling head over heels in love with him, the world's legendary ladies' man (Ledger) meets the love of his life -- the one woman who thinks he's a total heel. Comic chaos ensues in a hilarious whirl of misadventures, disguises, and mistaken identities as the love-struck Casanova tries to win the heart of the fiery feminist who wants nothing to do with the man she thinks he is. |
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A light farce dressed up as a lush 18th century costume drama, Casanova gives a fictional spin to the exploits of history's most rakish seducer of women. As played by Heath Ledger, this Casanova bears no resemblance to Donald Sutherland's unrepentant portrayal in Fellini's Casanova, filmed 30 years earlier. Instead, the great ladies' man of Venice is just biding time by bedding women, waiting for true love (and the return his long-absent mother) to settle down into blissful monogamy. He finds true love in Francesca (Sienna Miller), a feminist who initially resists Casanova's affections while director Lasse Hallström serves up a variety of lightweight subplots including Casanova's flight from the Vatican's inquisitor (Jeremy Irons); a host of mistaken identities involving, among others, the portly "Lard King of Genoa" (played with scene-stealing perfection by Oliver Platt in a blubbery fat suit); and the romantic negotiations of Francesca's mother (played by Hallström’s wife, Lena Olin) and a young bumbler named Giovanni with his own promising future as a lover of women. It all adds up to a good-looking and harmless diversion that barely warrants an R-rating, and it makes a fine double-bill with the more enjoyable Dangerous Beauty, another Venetian lover’s tale that was also blessed by the presence of Platt, who gives this Casanova the majority of its entertainment value. --Jeff Shannon |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 92 reviews)
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What happens when the greatest lover of all time falls for a girl who cant love him? 
This is a very good movie. Heath Ledger and Siena Miller are great as Cassanova and Francesca Bruni.
The story is an old Cassanova is writing his autobiography and is telling a story about a love that according to him is not his to tell.
Cassanova is already famous as a lover in Venice, Italy. He is caught with a novice nun (who according to Cassanova is hardly a novice.) THe Dogg is a friend of his and helps him out of his crapes. The Dogg was going to expell Cassanova from Venice, but then tells him to get married before Caravale a couple days later.
Cassanova and a person who works for him look for his future bride and found it in Victoria Donato. There is only one problem. Giovanni Bruni likes Victoria and is prepared to duell with Cassanova who gives his name as Lupo Salvato (the man who works for him.)
The next day Cassanova finds out that instead of dueling with Giovanni he spared with his sister Francesca. He is captivated by her and soon finds himself falling for her, but there are some compliocations.
One complication is that they are both engaged. Francesca is engaged to her fathers cousin Paprizzio (played by Oliver Platt). Also Cassanova thinks that she has a secret lover, but it turns out that she has been writing books and having a man named Bernardo Gurdi say that he wrote them.
Several days later Paprizzio comes to Venice and Cassanova meets him and "helps" him look better so that Cassanova can pretend that he is Paprizzio. Also Bishop Pucci comes to Venice to arrest Cassanova for being a "vile fornacator." Everything comes to a head at Caravale.
Why is it a story that is not the older Cassanova's to tell? What happens to Paprizzio, Cassanova, and Francesca? Watch Cassanova
November 02, 2008 | |
Casanova 
CasanovaReally a cute and well done adventure!
Acting: great........amusement: cute
Glad we purchased this......too bad we lost a good actor though!
October 23, 2008 | |
I liked this one too....
just like "a knight's tale"...and "10 things i hate about you", this flick just makes you laugh and feel good. The fact that the star of this flick (Heath Ledger) is more beautiful to look at than most the women in the film is also a plus. After breaking our hearts in Brokeback Mountain, Heath makes up for it cracking us up and making us swoon here. As always, his work in this film is great. Even though it is not a film to be taken too seriously, there is always an intensity in Heath's performances. This is worth the watch!
October 01, 2008 | |
Heath Ledger as "Casanova"
Released the same year as Brokeback Mountain (2005).
"Casanova" is Rated "R". Running Time: 1 hr, 51 min.
Ah, yes. Casanova! The many loves of Casanova. We see him with Sophia, then a nun, Sister Beatrice (Lauren Cohan) and yet another nun he knows (Danielle Baker).
Signor Giancumo Casanova (played by Heath Ledger) never gets to finish and always has to hide in the closet or make a mad dash at an escape.
This time, he got caught.
He will be hanged tomorrow. But wait! The Mayor of Venice is going to save his life, on grounds of mistaken identity.
You see, no one in the town of Venice really knows for sure who Casanova is, except for the ladies that are mums the word. The town square even makes fun of this Casanova by staging of an outdoors play.
The Mayor is expelling him from Venice. However, their is a reprieve. casanova must find a respectable wife before Carnevale and must be on his best behavior until then.
Casanova's eye is on the virginal francesca (Sienna Miller).
Also in the cast: Olivier Platt, Omio Djalili, Lena Olin, Stephen Greif, Jeremy Irons, Helen McCrory, Leigh Lawson, Charlie Cox, Natalie Dormer, Eugene Simon.
Bryan Korenberg is the scene stealer as the man in the brothel.
Actually filmed in Venice on location.
DVD Special Features: (12 minutes) "Creating An Adventure" featurette
(5 min.) "Dressing in Style" featurette
(3 min.) "Visions of Venice".
Audio Commentary by Director Lasse Hallstrom.
The real-life Casanova lived 1725-98.
Other "Casanova" movies:
Casanova's Big Night (1954), with Bob Hope, Vincent Price.
Casanova '70 (1965 FrenchItalian)
Casanova and Co. (1976 Australian-Italian-French-German), with Tony Curtis.
Note: Health Ledger unexpectedly died January 22, 2008 from an accidental overdose of prescription drugs. He had finished The Dark Knight (2008) and was filming The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009). Ledger will still be seen in "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus" with Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell continuing his changing character.
August 07, 2008 | |
Very Pleased
I was very pleaed with the shipment of this order. I will certainly come back next time. Thank you
June 26, 2008 | |
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