Word: casanovas
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...Casanova, the cervical cap is no lemon
...this interregnum, a great variety of morbid symptoms appears." His Don, solemnly played by Ruggero Raimondi, is a joyless, brooding creature whose compulsive sexuality is merely a neurotic reflection of social tensions. Losey gives us the least passionate seducer on film since Fellini's curiously chilly portrait of Casanova a couple of years...
...burnt-out visions of the catastrophic Casanova behind him, Federico Fellini has returned to film making in a new guise. Orchestra Rehearsal, a 70-minute movie originally made for Italian television, marks Fellini's debut as a political artist. Perhaps the change was inevitable. This director's latent pessimism matches perfectly the gloomy social landscape of chaotic contemporary Italy. Or so one might hope. In Rehearsal, Fellini is so enthralled by his polemic that he forgets to let his imagination take flight. A film that should have been his equivalent to Godard's Weekend or Wertmuller...
...amusing parody of the character type portrayed in Carly Simon's You're So Vain. Beatty was rumored to be the most likely candidate as the real-life model for the song's supremely narcissistic hero. He can't seem to shake off his reputation as an obsessed Casanova, pursuing several women at once while ultimately infatuated with himself. Yet there is something strangely but undeniably likeable about a 40-year-old "naughty...
Excellent acting, particularly by Figaro and his bride (Amy Aquino) overcomes some of the drawbacks of this half, while comic interludes are provided by Dan Breslin as an adolescent Casanova. Still, the loose ends remain apparent--personified, perhaps, in the totally inexplicable presence of an onstage onlooker in the balcony, whose only involvement in the play seems to be to make sound effects and yawn at the stupidities of the mortals beneath...