Average Rating: 5.6/10
Reviews Counted: 130
Fresh: 56 | Rotten: 74
This frothy, oddly bloodless film does a disservice to the colorful life of the real Casanova.
Average Rating: 6/10
Critic Reviews: 38
Fresh: 18 | Rotten: 20
This frothy, oddly bloodless film does a disservice to the colorful life of the real Casanova.
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History's most renowned ladies' man finally meets his match in this historical romance laced with comedy and adventure. In Venice in 1753, Giacomo Casanova (Heath Ledger) is a notorious playboy whose way with women goes too far when he's caught leaving the bedroom of a novice nun, and one of the leading prosecutors of the Inquisition, Pucci (Jeremy Irons), puts him on trial. The Doge (Tim McInnerny), Venice's political point man, is a friend of Casanova's and pulls strings to get him off the
Dec 25, 2005 Wide
Apr 25, 2006
$11.2M
Buena Vista Pictures
All Critics (143) | Top Critics (38) | Fresh (59) | Rotten (78) | DVD (25)
Overall, Casanova is silly but amusing.
The whimsical plot, involving Casanova's seduction of a cross-dressing feminist, isn't helped by director Lasse Hallstrom's leaden hand.
The sticky sweet stuff in the middle traps history's greatest lover and slows the whole affair to a crawl.
Despite its oh-so deviant title character, Casanova is a harmless bon-bon, a breezy period farce that mimics lesser Shakespeare and a look that recalls Amadeus or Shakespeare in Love.
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.
Casanova finds [director] Hallstrom more inspired, or at least lively and engaged, than he has been in years, and he's in the company of the actor of the moment.
Gets funny once it enters farce mode. Nothing special by the cast, including Ledger.
Legendary lover cleans up for happily committed coupledom.
The script is solid, the actors clearly have fun with it, and the location Venice photography makes you want to phone your travel agent.
One of those smart pictures that transcends genres, a costume romance inspired by Restoration comedy, French farce and vaudevillian slapstick.
There's no edge in Ledger's performance, only a lot of cutesy moments.
Casanova is just a farce, true, but there's a smugness to the proceedings that leaves a bad aftertaste.
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.
even I - a product of the American public school system - am able to recognize that much of this film is complete bollix
A horndog who deserves a swift kick where the Venetian sun don't shine.
Heath Ledger, Omid Djalili, Senna Miller, Charlie Cox, Lena Olin, Jeremy Irons, Natalie Dormer, Oliver Platt, Lauren Cohan DIRECTED BY: Lasse Hallstrom Heath Ledger plays the fabled romantic as a man who, after failing to win the affection of a particular Venetian woman, strives to discover the real meaning of love.
April 30, 2009
Super Reviewer
I took this journey mainly because of Heath Ledger. The fact that Jeremy Irons, Lena Olin & Oliver Platt were envolved also helped. But what I assumed would be a sort of lush period piece with a dash of period specific humor (a la' 'A Room With A View") ended up feeling more like a "slap-sticky" comedy of errors.
September 9, 2008Super Reviewer
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