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Film & Drama
Casanova
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Men admire him... or want to punch his lights out. Women adore him. He's cool, he's got the gift of the gab, and 18th century Europe is his playground. Ladies and gentlemen (especially ladies), meet...
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As an elderly librarian, Giacomo Casanova (played by the iconic Peter O'Toole), has a lot of exciting memories. A young servant girl, Edith (Rose Byrne), is treated to his lurid recollections and, before too long, she discovers that there's life in this old dog yet. It's enough to burst her bodice!
But this is nothing compared to the escapades of the young, hot and horny master of seduction. The youthful Casanova (cheekily portrayed by David Tennant) cuts a swathe through the women of Europe with his dashing good looks and irrepressible confidence.
But though the laydeez offer their full approval (usually expressed horizontally), the law is outraged by his antics. Made an outlaw for offences against government and church, Casanova leads the life of a fugitive.
But hey, if you're on the run you might as well make the best of it. New towns mean new women, huzzah!
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... was written by Russell T Davies
"I took this as a chance to reinvigorate period drama, and to tell a dazzling and very funny story.
"We're bringing back to life, for three hours, a truly remarkable man, and a genuine legend.
"When I sat down to read Casanova's autobiography - all 12 volumes of it! - I discovered that our modern-day impression of a lascivious, misogynist man is hopelessly wrong.
"He's been filtered down through the centuries as a bastard. I wanted to rescue him, to show what he was really like.
"This man genuinely loved women, and respected them with an astonishingly modern mentality.
"I also discovered that, outside his love life, Casanova was a wonderful, barmy, inventive man.
"And what a fraud! Like an 18th century Jeffrey Archer, but funny. He wasn't born an aristocrat, he lied his way into jobs and positions of power with charm and cheek. He's just irresistible."
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Previous screen Casanovas include:
Richard Chamberlain (1987):
"[He was] incredibly randy, amazingly resourceful. He fell in love with all the women he went to bed with, but he was incapable of sustaining a relationship. He would have liked to have found the woman he could have been in love with forever. But he didn't know that being in love and loving were different."
Donald Sutherland (1976):
"I thought I was beautiful."
Leslie Phillips (1973):
"Well, heylloooooo..." |
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