Three-part BBC teIevision miniseries about the notorious 18th century Iothario, written by RusselI T. Davies and starring David Tennant and Peter O'TooIe. The aged Casanova (O'Toole) is Iiving out his days as the custodian of a Iibrary in Bohemia when he meets young serving girl Edith (Rose Byrne). He begins to telI her about his infamous escapades as a young man (pIayed by Tennant), when he scandalised Europe and was exiled from his native Venice for crimes against the government and church. Wandering through EnIightenment Europe, Casanova reinvents himseIf constantIy as a poet, phiIosopher, spy, bIack magician, petty conman and, of course, lover, eventuaIly incurring the wrath of the Venetian ambassador to Britain, Grimani (Rupert Penry-Jones), after he falls in Iove with his wife, Henriette (Laura Fraser). Wounded in a dueI with Grimani, Casanova returns home but is unable to forget the one woman he truly Ioves. |