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  • BBC
  • Mar 13, 2005
  • BBC
  • Mar 13, 2005
Casanova

Summary Giacomo Casanova, an elderly librarian (Peter O'Toole) in a castle in Bohemia, has a lot of memories, which he shares with Edith (Rose Byrne), a young servant. This takes us into the world of the young Casanova (David Tennant), a dashing Venetian chancer and outlaw who tumbles the ladies of Europe in an astonishing career. But for mo...

  • BBC
  • Mar 13, 2005
  • BBC
  • Mar 13, 2005
Casanova
Season 1
Season Premiere: Mar 13, 2005
Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
67
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Summary Giacomo Casanova, an elderly librarian (Peter O'Toole) in a castle in Bohemia, has a lot of memories, which he shares with Edith (Rose Byrne), a young servant. This takes us into the world of the young Casanova (David Tennant), a dashing Venetian chancer and outlaw who tumbles the ladies of Europe in an astonishing career. But for mo...

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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]
By Alynda Wheat FULL REVIEW
75
A playful pastiche of clashing styles.
By David Hinckley FULL REVIEW
70
It 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.
By Anita Gates FULL REVIEW
70
When 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?
By John Leonard FULL REVIEW
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.
By Robert Lloyd FULL REVIEW
60
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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"Casanova" is a giddily unconventional tale of an adventurous youth, but then it's also a stock and inflated portrait of old age.
By Matthew Gilbert FULL REVIEW

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