Casanova

History’s most renowned ladies’ man finally meets his match in this historical romance laced with comedy and adventure. In Venice in 1753, Giacomo Casanova (Heath Ledger) is a notorious playboy whose way with women goes too far when he’s caught leaving the bedroom of a novice nun, and one of the leading prosecutors of the Inquisition, Pucci (Jeremy Irons), puts him on trial. The Doge (Tim McInnerny), Venice’s political point man, is a friend of Casanova’s and pulls strings to get him off the hook and allow him to stay in the city, but under one condition — he must take a wife and remain faithful to her. Casanova sets his sights on Victoria (Natalie Dormer), a lovely young maiden who is obviously taken with the handsome ladykiller, but he’s not the only one who wants her hand. Giovanni Bruni (Charlie Cox) is a young man who is very much in love with Victoria, and in order to move him out of the picture, Casanova challenges him to a duel. However, when Casanova is bested in swords in the challenge, he discovers he’s actually been parrying with Giovanni’s sister, Francesca (Sienna Miller). As Casanova gets to know Francesca, he discovers she’s a gifted writer and a bright and independent woman as well as a good hand with a sword, and he comes to the realization that she’s the woman he wants to take to the altar. However, Francesca has already been promised to the vain and chubby Papprizzio (Oliver Platt), a man she’s never met, and she doesn’t seem at all interested in the notorious Casanova. Casanova also stars Lena Olin, and Omid Djalili., A retelling of the legend of the infamous 18th-century Venetian lover. Casanova is ordered to clean up his act and marry a virtuous virgin by the Doge, but opts to pursue her tempestuous sister instead., The legendary Casanova is about to meet his match with an alluring Venetian beauty who does the one thing he never thought possible: refuse him., A retelling of the legend of the infamous 18th century Venetian lover. Casanova is ordered to clean up his act and marry a virtuous virgin by the Doge, but opts to pursue her tempestuous sister instead., Tale of the amorous exploits of the suave 18th-century Venetian ladies’ man whose womanizing ways are disrupted by an engaged cross-dressing feminist., Loosely based on the memoirs of the writer, adventurer, and infamous lover Giacomo Casanova, this is a comedy of mistaken identities and misunderstandings set in Venice in the early 18th century. Casanova (Heath Ledger), a young man in the constant pursuit of pleasure meets Francesca Bruni (Sienna Miller). The problem is Francesca is not only beautiful, but also clever and is the one woman that has failed to fall for his not so irresistible charm. Lena Olin, Jeremy Irons and Oliver Platt complete the cast under the direction of Lass Hallström., The notorious 18th-century lothario falls for a feisty beauty who’s already engaged in this witty and effervescent romantic farce starring Heath Ledger (“Brokeback Mountain”) and Sienna Miller. Jeremy Irons, Oliver Platt, Lena Olin. Directed by Lasse Hallstrom., Lavish retelling of the Casanova story with Heath Ledger as the sword-thrusting, female-lusting lover of Sienna Miller’s feisty Francesca. With Jeremy Irons., He was the world’s most notorious seducer. A swashbuckler, master of disguise and wit – it was said no woman could resist Casanova’s amorous charms. Until now. For the first time in his life, the legendary Casanova is about to meet his match with an alluring Venetian beauty, Francesca.