A BEAUTIFUL IMPERFECTION
A CASANOVA MOVIE DRAMA
Screen Daily reports today that Dutch director Michiel Van Erp is preparing a costume movie drama A BEAUTIFUL IMPERFECTION about Casanova and one of the women he loved. With Aneurin Barnard and Dar
Zuzovsky in the lead roles, the cast will also have Jonah Hauer King and Sam Hazeldine. Based on the novel In Lucia’s Eyes by Arthur Japin it follows the love affair between Casanova and a courtesan who becomes disfigured by smallpox and flees Italy for Amsterdam.
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| Aneurin Barnard, Jonah Hauer King, Dar Zuzovsky |
MOONHAVEN TRAILER
FOR NEW AMC'S SF SERIES
Now I thought it won't look this cheap, but you can check it out yourself as AMC Plus has released a trailer for their new six part series MOONHAVEN which will
arrive July 7th! It centers on Bella Sway (Emma McDonald), a lunar cargo pilot and smuggler 100 years in the future who finds herself accused of a crime and marooned on Moonhaven, a utopian community set on a 500 square mile Garden of Eden built on the Moon to find solutions to the problems that will soon end civilization on Mother Earth. A skeptic in Paradise, Bella is sucked into a conspiracy to gain control of the artificial intelligence responsible for Moonhaven's miracles and teams with a local detective to stop the forces that want to destroy Earth's last hope before they are destroyed themselves. Dominic Monaghan and Joe Manganiello also star.
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| Moonhaven sf series arrives July 7th to AMC |
My husband will be interesting in Moonhaven!
ReplyDeleteI am still not sure whether I will check it out or not as the trailer lowered my interest.
Deletei have yet to see a film or miniseries that gets to depict Casanova accurately. It's like Sisi, an eternal Disney myth. The one that got closer was La Nuit de Varennes.because it dealt with an old washed out Casanova.
ReplyDeleteRussians still haven't aired theirs with our actor Ivan Bosiljcic who goes to seduce Catherine the Great.
DeleteI agree with Malena on the accuracy of Casanova. I'm sure this one will be fine for bored entertainment value, but if we're looking for an accurate accounting of this particular lover, it will miss the mark I bet.
ReplyDeleteI've no idea what is the accurate picture of him.
DeleteLet ‘see if I am with Theresa here. In fiction, Casanova is always shown as a sex addict, a great lover, seducing women just for fun. D. Paul Zweig (alav-ha-shalom), one of my mentors, used to tell us-he also wrote about it- that Don Juan is the man whore, the misogynist who lives to score, whereas Casanova is a true adventurer. Affairs are part of his adventurous quest, but not its main purpose. Casanova, despite humble origins, became a lawyer, had an stupendous education that allowed him to go around playing quack, alchemist, diviner, etc. He travelled extensively, got into all of scraps, but also hobnobbed with influential and remarkable people which led to him being hired as a secret agent. Most important, he was a social observer and a fine writer. Through his memoirs we get to see Europe in the XVIII. So, just having him as a sex toy hopping in and out of beds, can be boring and misleading.
DeleteI have his life described in one of the historical stories book from my beloved Juliette Benzoni, so I am looking forward to reading it. I am currently busy reading Turgenyev.
DeleteI always enjoy yours and Malena's history lessons. I think how you, Malena, describe him in this short paragraph makes him sound way more interesting than the sex fiend he's always portrayed as. I'm sure he loved knocking the boots, but he definitely led an interesting life outside of the bedroom as well.
DeleteMaybe this new movie will portray him in a true way.
DeleteThanks Theresa, I’m glad we are on the sane page on Casanova. He matters to me because he was a fellow librarian. He spent the last two decades of his life looking after Count Waldstein’s library.
DeleteAbout what Weaver said below, it is now believed that what killed Casanova was not syphilis but the mercury treatment that was used employed at the time. Gattocito, our beloved David Oakes played two characters (in The Borgias and in Victoria) afflicted by syphilis and had to rely on mercury as sole treatment. It was pure poison.
Yes, I still miss his syphilitic prince Ernst LOL That show killed itself when they ditched Ernst and gave us that awful pathetic duchess that whores herself with servants and then blames her hubby for it.
DeleteErnst and his Duchess Harriet were sorely missed. But by third season, all good characters were gone. The new ones were unbearable. In real life Fedora was never mean to her sister for the simple reason she was never around Vicky. The new Duchess was dull as hell. She wasn’t even based in a real person, I felt sorry for her, but what’s the use of having her roll in the sand with a lackey if she’s going back to her pig husband? The season got to be so infuriating that I was rooting for an affair between Palmerston and the Queen, and they hated each other in real life!
DeleteI guess we should be happy that at least we have him in Valhalla. I was also pissed when they killed Leo Suter and left his gay lord all alone, it was the most beautiful romantic story ever seen in any costume drama and they killed it for no reason. And then the queen also became so nasty towards poor Albert, she obviously had issues beside being naturally daft LOL No wonder her children weren't the brightest peas in the pod either. Palmerston was quite fun, much more than RufRuf's prime minister character.
DeleteThe problem with Victoria is that Daysi didn’t know what to do: stick to real facts or concoct her own fairy tale, and her tale was better. She created a very nice Vicky, much pleasanter than the genuine item, although she managed to transmit some historical bits like the queen’s eccentric upbringing, her strained relationship with her Mom and Sir John, her loneliness, etc.
DeleteI bought the Melbourne fairytale, was rooting for queen and Prime Minister marriage, but they decided to go authentic, and we got an Albert just as the husband from hell he was in reality. That control freak was the inventor of Victorian mores with his obsession with puritan domestic life.
I cried buckets when Drummond was killed, especially watching poor Lord Paget having to hide his pain, being supported by the Duchess of Buccleuch and Wilhelmina. Like you I don’t understand what went on there. Yes, Drummond was murdered in real life, but he was not gay neither did he have an affair with Lord Alfred, so make up your minds. If you are going to create the perfect gay romance leave out unnecessary technicalities like a political murder. Moreover, Drummond was in his fifties when he was shot.
I kinda liked Albert in the show and hated Vicky, she was pathetic and daft, at least in the series. It is a perfect example of how men and women are sometimes very different.
DeleteI need to find Drummond and Alfred's kiss scene on YouTube.
I left you the kiss clip in Messenger.
DeleteThanks!
DeleteIt looks OK, I don't think it looked that cheap. It didn't look amazing either, thought.
ReplyDeleteI think I did not expect all them colours.
DeleteI'm intrigued by the story of Moonhaven. Nice to see "Merry" again.
ReplyDeleteAs for Casanova, they never mention that he died of Syphilis or wonder at the number of people he infected. Dramatizations like to forget things like STDs and unwanted pregnancies of that time.
Pippin is back indeed.
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