Saw this movie last night.. Can't pick up my jaw from the floor yet.

Seriously - this was one of the best screenplays I have ever seen. The direction was reaaaally good - and by that I mean that it was incredibly bold trough and trough (where will you see such incredible scenes anywhere?)

One is constantly shifting between laughter and sadness all the way - I've never seen anything so heart-wrenching. I't just amazing.



Oddly, I felt that O'Toole did not add much to the movie and I did not really believe him to be Casanova. Tennant just stole the show. I get what they were trying to do - show the two sides to the coin .. how Casanova became a bitter old man, but I felt it didn't work all that well with the main plot and that Tennant's Casanova didn't fit too well with O'Tools'. I almost believed for a second that the maid would turn out to be their daughter, which would make more sense for the whole thing and I was a bit disappointed by the way they finished it off. Needed more Tennant!!! :)

But all that doesn't change the fact that this movie is one of a kind. I prefer to think that the last 30 minutes didn't happen though and imagine some preferred ending instead. I suppose it was just too difficult to wrap the amazing story in 3 hours - I really yearned for 4 and I felt Henriette had to show up in the end. I get what they were trying to do (or do i?) but I feel this story deserved a kind of happy ending. (So I might just try to write it out sometime. :) )

Props to an amazing movie!!!