Word: casanovas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have made a movie as if in flight, " says Master Film Maker Federico Fellini, "as if it were a sickness to be got through. " Few pictures have been as eagerly awaited as Fellini's Casanova, the director's most recent bout with "sickness, " which has lasted nine months, and appeared for a while to be terminal. Now scheduled for pre-Christmas release in the U.S., Casanova managed to survive the theft of two reels of early footage; almost identical alternate work prints were substituted. Then last December Producer Alberto Grimaldi canceled Casanova in mid-filming, blaming Fellini...
...Casanova is Fellini's most ambitious film in years and his first English-language picture. It is also evidently a chilling, worldly departure from Amarcord, last year's lyrical reminiscence that won Fellini his fourth Academy Award. The new movie is peopled by many of the androgynous grotesques that crowded his fantasy Satyricon (1969). Fellini, 56, has ensured his film a stormy reception in Italy by comparing the 18th century rake-protagonist to the typical modern Italian: "He is all shop front, a public figure striking attitudes ... in short, a braggart Fascist...
...real Casanova-played in the movie by Donald Sutherland-was an intellectual, a gambler and a great Venetian libertine, who seduced and abandoned ladies by the hundreds in his travels across Europe. His Memoirs are usually considered to rank among the classic 18th century autobiographies. Fellini disagrees. He professes to have ripped the pages with rage as he read them. "Unfortunately, I had already signed to do the film," he says. "No nature, animals, children, trees. The stron-zo [turd] roamed the whole of Europe and it is as if he never moved from...
Despite his reputation as a quick-fire lover, Casanova is moving out of the bedsheets and onto the screen in slow motion at best...
...look-shaved-off eyebrows and a partly shaved scalp-does nothing to enhance his allure. Yet those are some of the changes that Makeup Artist Giannetto De Rossi, 33, has wrought to transform Sutherland into the lady-killing hero of Federico Fellini's film Casanova. In a three-hour session each morning on the set in Rome, Rossi also gives Sutherland a false chin and nose, then winds his remaining shoulder-length hair into curlers that stick out over his ears, making it difficult for him to use the telephone. "My God, is that what Casanova looked like?" asked...