Casanova (DVD)

Casanova is a man who loves to love women. He is sure that women are meant for pleasure, and pleasure alone, and that seems to make him happy. That is, until he meets Francesca Bruni - a woman who has a different idea about the true meaning of love, and isn't willing to be subservient or just a sex object. Casanova is intrigued and finds pursuing her can't be done in his usual manner. Unfortunately, she's betrothed to another, and Casanova is being pursued by the Church, who is forcing him to find a wife to save himself - hopefully one that will help him financially as well. If the story of the "world's greatest lover" isn't excellent fodder for ...

~ Lies told, Virtue lost and Love found ~ Casanova was released in 2006 in the UK and I've only just watched it. When it first came out was really wanted to see it and must have forgotten all about it until the other week when I added it to my list on Lovefilm. I watched a trailer of the film online which made me add it to my list. I am a huge fan of Heath Ledger and I quite like films that are from a certain era. The trailer looked really good to me and this is a sort of film my mum also likes which gives me a boosting in winning over the TV downstairs. To be honest I didn't know much about the film before I had watched it, I knew roughly what it was ...

Bastardisation! There is nothing more than the men in grey suits in Hollywoodland like to do than bastardise history. Imagine a group of closed door policy, gun loving Americans getting their hands on your beautiful history. They’re not intent on swapping and ruining their own past (as they have so little) so they have to make do with ours. Who can forget massive historical inaccuracies that were ‘Braveheart’, ‘U-571’ or even ‘Saving Private Ryan’? Each of these films managed to somehow change the events of the past ‘Sound of Thunder’ style (please see ‘obscure sci-fi films from 2006’ reference book for details). What annoys me the most is that to the majority of ...