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Casanova

Fellini's version of the life of the celebrated 18th century Italian lover Giacomo Casanova. This was Fellini's most controversial film: criticized in the United States for being either too pornographic or too esoteric and praised in Europe for its sophistication, Fellini considered this film to be his most expressive, and courageous work. The American actor Donald Sutherland portrays Casanova as a sophisticated sensualist, who sees himself as the central performer in an endless narrative of conquest. The blasé, nouveau riche European sensibility which Fellini presented a decade earlier with La Dolce Vita is reworked here and relocated to 18th century Europe. The director resorts to a succession of visually fantastic sets produced on the back lots of Cinecitta to capture episodes in Casanova's life. The great lover lurches from one erotic encounter to the next in Rome, London, Dresden and so on.

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