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75A playful pastiche of clashing styles.
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70When you’ve got Peter O’Toole in a Masterpiece Theatre mini-series, who cares how many liberties teleplaywright Russell T. Davies took with the confabulations of Giovanni Giacomo Casanova?
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70It does have a lively pace, a warm spirit, a contagious sense of fun, some very pretty 18th-century European settings and Peter O’Toole as the title character in his later years.
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60"Casanova" only gets into trouble when it wants to mean something, and the more pointedly emotional moments seem cooked up to the point of hokum, but it's fun when it wants to be, and most of the time it just wants to be fun.
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A second half that bogs down and suspect chemistry will deter some viewers from finding out what really happened at the end of Casanova's days.
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50"Casanova" is a giddily unconventional tale of an adventurous youth, but then it's also a stock and inflated portrait of old age.
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83[O'Toole's] Casanova may have lust in his heart, but it's his love for Henriette... that guides his life and makes the tale worth the telling. [6 Oct 2006, p.64]
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carrif10i adored this mini-series. david tennant is brilliant as a young casanova. it really is a wonderful retelling of an interesting story.
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emmac9a funny and enotional movie
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SimonT3Silly, paced too faced. Waste of time.