But it turned out she had a false penis down her trousers. But anyway, um, first of all I was with another woman, and I slept with her, sorry, er, well, I slept with her lots of times so, very sorry. Giacomo Casanova: Although I have actually done that. Giacomo Casanova: Er, there's this woman, but she's engaged, and all this went on behind her fiancé's back. You see, there's this woman, um, and I suppose you can include lustful thoughts while you're at it. Priest: In too great a measure then, yes. Giacomo Casanova: I, I don't love it as such, but I need it, is that a sin?

It's money, father, er, love of money is a sin, isn't it? Actors Lindon and Martin deliver enjoyable parts they succeed at making this power game vivid and tragic.Giacomo Casanova: Bless me father, for I have sinned.

Script and direction are precise and dynamic here, and the photography is evocative and technically perfect. It shows how and why power relations are complicated and bi-directional, far from what the current MeToo wave of childish self-victimization has popularized in the Anglo-American culture. This movie is a masterpiece, for it shows the moment of realization that all human beings have, at some point, seeing the finitude of their lives. This puzzle may be the punishment he unconsciously inflicts on himself, following the legend of Don Giovanni, the quest for moral redemption through self-inflicted spiritual and sexual pain. However, we see him here precisely on the verge of self-humiliation and degradation, risking losing everything just for the sake of receiving care and attention from a love that is impossible only for him.Ĭasanova, 'the most powerful man in the world,' is the only one who cannot have this woman. Casanova is a libertine who has built a reputation as a womanizer he has money, social influences, ex-lovers are fond of him.

Therefore, is it something unsatisfying that he sees in himself? Maybe yes. What is the truth of his desire then? Is it about some power this particular woman intrinsically has? The movie rightly shows her ambiguously she is attractive, yes, but also vulgar and manipulative. Casanova here insists it is more than mere infatuation, and he is correct, his situation is far more complicated than that. Isn't this the classical tragedy during all human existence, say from the Bible's King David to the numbers of fifty-year-old divorces nowadays? The sexual power young women have, even the ugliest or less talented one, drives crazy so many men and makes them put in risk their reputation, money, even their own life. Casanova, 'the most powerful man in the world,' the adorable phallus, in his mid-years, infatuated with a young woman half his age who doesn't give him enough attention.

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