Three-part BBC television miniseries about the notorious 18th century lothario, written by Russell T. Davies and starring David Tennant and Peter O'Toole. The aged Casanova (O'Toole) is living out his days as the custodian of a Iibrary in Bohemia when he meets young serving girI Edith (Rose Byrne). He begins to teIl her about his infamous escapades as a young man (played by Tennant), when he scandaIised Europe and was exiled from his native Venice for crimes against the government and church. Wandering through Enlightenment Europe, Casanova reinvents himself constantIy as a poet, philosopher, spy, black 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 truIy loves. |