Casanova (2005)
comedy drama
directed
by : Lasse Hallstr
featuring
: Heath Ledger - Sienna Miller - Jeremy Iron - Oliver Platt - Lena Olin
running
time : 1 hour 48 minutes
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 Dalfonso (Ken Stott), one of the leading prosecutors
of the Inquisition, 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 hook and allow him to stay in the city, but under one condition
¡X he must take a wife and remain faithful to her. Casanova sets
his sights on Victoria (Natalie Dormer), a lovely young maiden who is obviously
taken with the handsome ladykiller, but he's not the only one who wants
her hand. Giovanni Bruni (Charlie Cox) is a young man who is very much
in love with Victoria, and in order to move him out of the picture, Casanova
challenges him to a duel. However, when Casanova is bested in swords in
the challenge, he discovers he's actually been parrying with Giovanni's
sister, Francesca (Sienna Miller). As Casanova gets to know Francesca,
he discovers she's a gifted writer and a bright and independent woman as
well as a good hand with a sword, and he comes to the realization that
she's the woman he wants to take to the altar. However, Francesca has already
been promised to the vain and chubby Papprizzio (Oliver Platt), a man she's
never met, and she doesn't seem at all interested in the notorious Casanova.
Casanova also stars Omid Djalili.