film and architecture section: Casanova by Federico Fellini, architecture and film appreciation

category: Architecture and Film (The Bartlett University syllabus) (click HERE for syllabus)

film index: 18

film: Casanova
director: Federico Fellini
writers: Federico Fellini, Bernardino Zapponi
production: Italy
release: 1976
playtime: 148 mins
visual: colour
Language: Italian / English / French / German
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Cast: Donald Sutherland, Tina Aumont, Cicely Browne, Carman Scarpitta, Daniel Emilfork, Dan van Husen, Isabel PisanoSerrault
size: 710 mb

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Casanova is not only the story of a man, it is also about a whole era-- an era of grand opulence and grand waste. Like in many of Fellini's other films, the protagonist of Casanova serves as a guide for us through a phantasmagoric carnival-like world. Casanova is depicted as a sexually-ravenuous, and deeply cynical man. He is constantly searching for some kind of image of the perfect woman-- an ideal which eventually leads to his own destruction.

Casanova is not a film for everyone-- despite having the usual Fellinisque scenes of ribaldry, Casanova is for the most part slowly paced. Ultimately, Casanova, like Fellini's And the Ship Sails On, is about the passing of a golden age into oblivion. One leaves Casanova feeling both depressed, and yet somehow hopeful. Why?

Perhaps because like all great artists, Fellini realizes that in our darkest hours, we still can hold on to our memories of happier times.

imbd link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074291/
Wikipedia link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fellini%27s_Casanova

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Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Casanova by Federico Fellini, architecture and film appreciation

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