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Fellini's Casanova - (Mr Bongo Films) (1976) [DVD]

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Donald Sutherland (Actor), Federico Fellini (Director) Rated: Suitable for 18 years and over Format: DVD
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  • Actors: Donald Sutherland
  • Directors: Federico Fellini
  • Format: Anamorphic, DVD-Video, PAL, Widescreen
  • Language: Italian, French
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 18
  • Studio: Mr Bongo Films
  • DVD Release Date: 1 May 2010
  • Run Time: 148 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B003AKJN0A
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 42,552 in DVD & Blu-ray (See Top 100 in DVD & Blu-ray)

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Federico Fellini's darkest film cracks through the myth of Giacomo Casanova. As played by Donald Sutherland (M.A.S.H, Don t Look Now), the notorious womanizer is presented as a pitiable and terrifying figure. Casanova craves respect as a scholar and yearns to pursue his interest in alchemy. A sex scandal lands him in prison, but an escape to Paris provides him a new lease of life. Yet every Court in Europe and its attendant patrons and hostesses will only entertain him if he lives up to his reputation in the ritual displays of sex and courtship which form part of the daily life of 18th Century Europe. Fellini had dealt with the theme of the frustration of human desires in La Dolce Vita and 8 ½. In Casanova, the nobleman s search for happiness achieves tragedy, a painful reflection of the human condition.

Fellini's Casanova is celebrated for its production values and costume design, for which Danilo Donati won Academy and BAFTA awards, and is made memorable by Nino Rota's unusual haunting score. This twilight work is one of the greatest films of the 1970s.

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Sutherland's performance is the most astonishing piece of screen acting since Brando's in Last Tango in Paris --Time Out

A spectacular visual fantasy which succeeds in capturing the emotional and moral void at the heart of the Casanova myth ... a beautiful, indulgent private fantasy --Film4

Sutherland's performance is the most astonishing piece of screen acting since Brando's in Last Tango in Paris --Time Out

A spectacular visual fantasy which succeeds in capturing the emotional and moral void at the heart of the Casanova myth ... a beautiful, indulgent private fantasy --Film4

Sutherland's performance is the most astonishing piece of screen acting since Brando's in Last Tango in Paris --Time Out

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4.0 out of 5 starsThe not-so-great lover
By Trevor Willsmer HALL OF FAMETOP 50 REVIEWER on 12 April 2006
Format: DVD
Where else could you expect to see Donald Sutherland, Chesty Morgan, Dudley Sutton, a hunchbacked nymphomaniac, a couple of dwarves, numerous Germans on giant stools playing organs and a bloke from Are You Being Served? playing the world's greatest lover's brother than a Fellini film? Even Ken Russell could only enviously dream of such a line up. Fellini's Casanova - or to give it its more appropriate literal translation, The Casanova of Federico Fellini owes more to the Confessions and Carry On films in its treatment of sex than eroticism or even its antihero's own self-aggrandizing memoirs, but pretty much delivers everything you'd expect from latter Fellini: grand, often deliberately artificially theatrical design, over the top performances and tatty decadence on a grand scale.

In Donald Sutherland's vainglorious and ineffectual Casanova, he also has his most pathetic central character, a man with aspirations but no great genius who is reduced to little more than a performing seal by those who see through his own pretensions in an age where instant gratification is all anyone thinks about but can never really achieve. He's not much of a lover, his education and intellect rarely aspire higher than the groin and no-one pays much attention to anything he has to say - not just the perfect 70s hero but also possibly the most vicious self-portrait of an artist since Joseph Conrad poured all his self-loathing into Verloc in The Secret Agent. It's hard not to see the director's own fear that he too will be remembered as a pathetic self-parody successful only in the most trivial of his endeavours, only able to find some small delusion of fulfilment in dreams and automatons.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsGrotesque and outrageous ode to Enlightenment values.
By Jonathan James Romley on 15 Nov. 2005
Format: DVD
It is a common misconception that Fellini became worthless after his grand-masterpiece 8 ½, with most critics dismissing all but Amarcord as lightweight, over-blown odes to pretension, not fit to hold a candle to the low-key delights of La Strada, Nights of Cabiria, etc. Though it's true to say that Fellini's interest in "straight" cinema post-8 ½ did wane slightly, with films like Juliet of the Spirits, Roma, Satyricon and The City of Women all substituting character depth and clear storytelling for grand gestures and theatrical stylisation, there were at least a few of his later films that have aged surprisingly well and can, in some respects, be viewed in hindsight as being as interesting and artistically relevant as those earlier, more acclaimed works.
Casanova is one such film, as far as I'm concerned. Certainly, the film can be seen as excessive in the most self-indulgent way possible, what with the stylised set-design, reliance on theatricality, over-the-top performances, and all manner of outrageously comedic, wildly frivolous, fornication. Fellini carefully mixes the highbrow (discussions of art, philosophy and the notions of freewill) with the lowbrow (clowns, carnivals, sex contests and the kind of innuendos usually reserved for Benny Hill), structuring his film in a highly episodic fashion so that it (at times) feels more like a collection of scenes as opposed to one long cohesive films (though, having said that, pretty much all of Fellini's later films were defined by their episodic structures). It certainly won't be a film that every one will appreciate.Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 starsA film that will bring the viewer into a mystical and surrealistic world of the famous lover from Venice
By Richard Brzostek on 23 May 2010
Format: DVD
Fellini's Casanova is a film that will bring the viewer into a mystical and surrealistic world of the famous lover from Venice. In addition to having a reputation as a lover that follows him throughout Europe, Casanova is also a poet, artist, mathematician, and philosopher. If that isn't enough to have an alluring aura, he is also a nobleman that dabbles in alchemy and the occult.

Although Casanova is an interesting character, he seems to attract just as many unusual people and experiences. In every instance, it just about always inevitably leads to some bedroom romp. His travels across Europe take him to the courts of many countries and unusual women somehow gravitate toward him like a magnate. From a woman pretending to be a nun in a mysterious palace on an island to a woman machine (robot) that is the amusement of the royal court, Casanova doesn't seem to have any problem getting himself into such unusual experiences. But in all the wondering Casanova does, one cannot but help think there is something empty in his life.

This film is musical, theatrical, and filled with amazing 18th century costumes. This is a movie that you will not forget anytime soon after watching it, as it is so atypical. As it is also filled with deeper meaning, if one looks for it anyway, Fellini's Casanova is one that can be watched again and again. I would recommend this movie the most for those who enjoy world cinema or art films, as it does not have any of the ingredients of a mainstream movie.
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5.0 out of 5 starsI've never tried doing it with candles on my head.
By Robair on 23 Oct. 2005
Format: DVD
I first saw Fellini's Casanova some years ago and remember its strong sense of atmosphere and period. I also love anything with Donald Sutherland and this film is one of his best.
Fellini was also new to me, and I soon had to look up other films by the great Italian director.
The costumes, style, and look of the film are amazing. At one point Fellini uses black plastic sheets to simulate a stormy sea at night. This might sound tacky but the world he presents is truly absorbing.
Don't expect the bright and breezy Casanova of the recent BBC version, Fellini described him as living a void and almost pulled out of the project. Hence the film presents a dark, confused and tortured figure - but it's the detail and sumptuality of this version that truly delights.
Very unusual and not like any other film I can think of . . . hold on let me think . . . no, truly unusual.
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