Casanova (2005)

Casanova
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Studio: Touchstone Pictures
Rating: R
Release Date: Dec 25, 2005
Running Time: 108 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
synopsis
For the first time in his life, the legendary Casanova is about to meet his match with an alluring Venetian beauty, Francesca, who does the one thing he never thought possible: refuse him. Through a series of clever disguises and scheming ruses, he manages to get ever closer to Francesca. However, he is playing the most dangerous game he has ever encountered--one that will risk not only his life and reputation, buthis only chance at true passion.
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Casanova
Francesca
Bishop Pucci
Papprizzio
Andrea
Donato
Dalfonso
Casanova's Mother
Mother's Lover/Tito
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Ledger--who has been receiving the best reviews of his career playing a lover of an entirely different sort in Ang Lee's dramatic Brokeback Mountain--is breezy and confident as the renowned seductor, embodying Casanova's own advice that the best way to win a woman's attention is to be the flame instead of the moth. Miller (perhaps best known to date as Jude Law's put-upon fiancée), meanwhile, certainly holds her own against him; her Francesca is earnest and determined, with just enough mischief… Continued

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rating  PETER TRAVERS - January 6, 2006
Fresh from his triumph as a gay cowboy in Brokeback Mountain, Heath Ledger re-ups as a hetero playing the world's greatest eighteenth-century lover. His comic flair is a big plus in a film that is fanatically busy and fatally sexless. The whimsical plot, involving Casanova's seduction of a cross-dressing feminist (Sienna Miller rivals the Venice locale for beauty), isn't helped by director Lasse Hallstrom's leaden hand. Oliver Platt is fun as the "lard king" with a yen for Miller, but he's just… Continued