"It was NOT one of his best. It lacks a cohesive structure. You know, you get the feeling that he's not absolutely sure what it is he wants to say."

— Annoying intellectual in ANNIE HALL (1977)

Omg.

Fellini's CASANOVA made me realize I'm THAT guy standing in line behind Woody Allen and Diane Keaton at the movies. Another exquisite feast for the eyes and ears that acts as proof that Fellini can never be reigned in. Sets, costumes, production design —it's all larger than life and majestic. Donald Sutherland screwing a robot puppet!? 

Now that's entertainment! 

Paul Newman, Al Pacino, Marlon Brando, Robert Redford, and Michael Caine were all apparently runner ups to play the aging womanizer, but Sutherland ended up stealing Fellini's heart with his innate sadness. Nina Rota's haunting score, once again, is the real mood-dresser. What charming, magical sounds that guy composed. A visual hot mess from start to finish, boasting a far too excessively long runtime at 155min, Fellini's CASANOVA is big on ambition, small on ideas, and even smaller on emotion. Take the brain and the heart out of the equation and you're pretty much left with a lot of eye and ear candy.

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