Overview
Experience the lavish life of a legendary seducer as he navigates the complexities of love and desire.
Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Slow
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Layered
- Violence
- Mild
- baroque
- surreal
- provocative
- arthouse film night
- fellini retrospective
What critics said
Critics broadly admire the film's visual daring and Donald Sutherland's committed performance while finding its extended episodic structure tedious and emotionally distancing.
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
Fellini transforms Casanova's European travels and amorous episodes into highly artificial, visually daring tableaux.
The memoir-based portrait follows Casanova as a legendary seducer whose identity is inseparable from his cultivated public persona.
Casanova's repeated amorous adventures are depicted as compulsive, stylized routines rather than uncomplicated romantic fulfillment.
The title itself foregrounds Fellini's version of Casanova, and the film privileges his imaginative reconstruction over memoir-like fidelity.
Films like Fellini's Casanova, and why
The Libertine
stylized historical drama centered on a famous libertine, with extravagant period design and erotic spectacle
Quills
provocative biographical period drama exploring sexual appetite, theatricality, and self-mythologizing
The Devils
baroque European historical romance with heightened visual invention and a flamboyant central seducer
Movie Details
- Director
- Federico Fellini
- Release Date
- 1976-12-10
- Runtime
- 148 min
- Rating
- 6.9 / 10 (254)
Cast
- Donald Sutherland
- Tina Aumont
- Cicely Browne
- Carmen Scarpitta
- Clara Algranti
- Daniela Gatti
- Margareth Clémenti
- Mario Cencelli
- Diane Kurys
- Mary Marquet
Common questions
- What is Fellini's Casanova about?
- Federico Fellini turns Casanova’s late-life seductions across eighteenth-century Europe into a sumptuous, grotesque meditation on performance, appetite, and loneliness.
- What is Fellini's Casanova like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Fellini's Casanova as slow, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as layered.
- Is Fellini's Casanova violent?
- Only mildly. Ember rates the violence in Fellini's Casanova as mild.
- What did critics think of Fellini's Casanova?
- Critics broadly admire the film's visual daring and Donald Sutherland's committed performance while finding its extended episodic structure tedious and emotionally distancing.
- Which films are like Fellini's Casanova?
- Films with a similar feel include The Libertine, Quills, and The Devils.
- How long is Fellini's Casanova?
- Fellini's Casanova runs 148 minutes.
