Casanova

[2005, Movie]

Casanova: Review

Hot-blooded: Sienna Miller and Heath Ledger

A light, sugar-dusted farce built around the dashing figure of iconic womanizer Giovanni Giacomo Casanova de Seingalt (Heath Ledger), Lasse Hallstrom's tepid farce, written by Jeffrey Hatcher and Kimberly Simi, both whitewashes the legendary lover and lacks the wicked wit that makes historical romps like Richard Lester's THE THREE MUSKETEERS (1973) sparkle. Venice, 1753: The exploits of rakish ladies' man Casanova (Heath Ledger), not yet 30, are already the stuff of satirical... read more

Casanova: Cast & Details

Year: 2005
Rated R

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Cast
Heath Ledger: Casanova
Sienna Miller: Francesca
Jeremy Irons: Pucci
Oliver Platt: Paprizzio
Lena Olin: Andrea
Omid Djalili: Lupo

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Casanova: TV Guide News

Heath Ledger: A Career Cut Short | A Beautiful Fraud | 1/23/2008
Not long before 3:35 pm on January 22, 2008, the short life and promising career of actor Heath Ledger came to a sudden, tragic end. It was around this time that Ledger's housekeeper and his masseuse discovered the body of the Australian-born actor in the bedroom of the Broome Street apartment he'd been renting in lower Manhattan. Ledger was not yet 29 years old.News of Ledger's death came as a terrible shock to nearly everyone, even though it now seems the low-key, Oscar-nominated actor had been privately battling his own demons for quite some time. His passing is the terrible surprise ending no one saw coming, an abrupt finale to a life and career that seemed to be all about the unexpected.Born and raised in Perth, Australia, and named after the darkly romantic anti-hero from Wuthering Heights (he has a sister named Katherine), Ledger left school at the age of 17 to pursue a career in acting. He eventually landed a role in Blackrock, a small independent feature about teen rape,... read more

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