Casanova

Casanova

Giacomo Girolamo Casanova is the name of the man who was famous for his persuasiveness. A short part of his life he lived in Venice, the city where the movie is taking place. Casanova (Heath Ledger) is notorious amoungst women in Venice, he doesn´t care if he stays with a married woman or a nun. So it´s not a surpirse that he is pursuited by the church, which is not quite happy with the debauched situation in this city anyway. Casanova has to find a wife within four (I think it was four, maybe five) days or he will be banished. He is not very choosey and finds a beautiful girl who wants to marry him soon, but then he meets Francesca Bruni (Sienna Miller), an intelligent and educated young woman, and falls for her. What now? This film is very clean, not surprising and after I have seen Heath Ledger as Joker in "The Dark Knight" I was a bit disapointed, this charakter here has not the fire, the life and the passion that I know Heath Ledger is able to give the figures. It´s  very light entertainment, not deep or touching, you don´t even really feel with the charakters because it´s too much slapstick and the whole story is brought up in a superficial way.