A film of rare visual daring and imagination in which easch frame is meticulously and attentively designed. Fellini's Casanova one of the Italian maestro's most sumptuous productions. In an astonishing piece of screen acting, Donald Sutherland portrays Casanova in his waning days, engaging in various amorous and political adventures with an air of bored detachment as he travels through a disease-ridden Europe. Imbued with a romantic pessimism, the film debunks with myth of Casanova as a great lover and instead presents him as an ordinary man swept along by extraordinary circumstances.

Featuring a compelling and complex score by long standing collaborator, Nino Rota. Fellini's Casanova also boasts Oscar winning costume design by Danilo Donati. Shot entirely lavish sound-stages of Rome's Cinecitta Studios, the film is popularly viewed as the directors elegiac farewell to a bygone era of Italian Cinema.

Imbued with an air of funeral solemnity and elegance, this film forsakes realism in favour of a stylised romantic pessimism which confronts impotence, failure, sexuality and exploitation as fully as Pasolini's Salo... the visual daring and pure imagination of every image leave it as an elegiac farewell to Italian Cinema; and Sutherland's performance is the most astonishing piece of screen acting since Brando's in Last Tango in Paris.
Time Out Film Guide

SPECIFICATIONS

PAL DVD 9 All Regions
Running Time 148 Minutes
Italian with English Subtitles
Colour
Mono