Casanova
by Lasse Hallstr?m
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Actor: Heath Ledger, Jeremy Irons, Lena Olin, Oliver Platt, Sienna MillerDirector: Lasse Hallstr?m
Brand: Buena Vista Home Video
Producer: Adam Merims
Producer: Betsy Beers
Producer: Gary Levinsohn
Producer: Guido Cerasuolo
Writer: Jeffrey Hatcher
Writer: Kimberly Simi
Writer: Michael Cristofer
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Unknown; Spanish (Dubbed), Unknown
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 112 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-04-25
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Touchstone
DVD Reviews of Casanova
DVD Review: Funny and witty
Summary: 3 Stars
There are some funny and witty parts to the movie. The beginning and ending are interesting and a bit unexpected, I feel.DVD Review: Everyone certainly did their homework !!
Summary: 5 Stars
I saw this movie for the first time last night on TV. Boy do i regret having missed this on a big screen !! Like all the other reviewers I totally agree this was a wonderful movie. The sets, costumes, scenery ( the real and simulated Venice was stunning) were amazing. It's all wonderfully lush and full of colors. On Blueray, this movie will knock your socks off. But what really shows that the film makers knew their stuff was the use of period music. Not the typical Hans Zimmer 'helicopter chase scene' music ( regardless the subject of the film) but Vivaldi, Handel, Rameau, etc. THIS was the music of the time and the way in which the right piece was synch'd with the right scene shows that the director knew what he was doing. The entire effect is a visual and audio extravaganza that makes you want to
a) hop a plane to Venice.
b) buy the soundtrack.
c) buy the movie.
d) watch it often.
Five stars easily.
DVD Review: What happens when the greatest lover of all time falls for a girl who cant love him?
Summary: 5 Stars
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
DVD Review: Casanova
Summary: 4 Stars
CasanovaReally a cute and well done adventure!
Acting: great........amusement: cute
Glad we purchased this......too bad we lost a good actor though!
DVD Review: I liked this one too....
Summary: 4 Stars
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!
Description of Casanova
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.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 Hallstr?m 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 Hallstr?m'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
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