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From: "MaggiRos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Historical Costume" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 8:47 AM
Subject: Re: [h-cost] Casanova on PBS........ I was wonder too about
theclothes......
Before it was over, I decided that it is meant to be
looked at in the same frame of mind as, say A Knight's
Tale. The script was fantastic--both in the sence of
wonderful/funny and off-beat. The color pallette, like
the dance music and the hair, just a little peculiar.
This was clearly Venice in a not-entirely-parallel
dimension. But I loved it anyway.
MaggiRos
~who has not been out of love with Peter O'Toole,
ever.
Yep, I saw it when it was on in Australia almost a year ago (I think) I
loved it as a story and the costumes looked pretty and they were enough like
the real thing that it didn't really jar (though I'm an 18th century novice)
my recollection of it is that, at least for the first half, the overall look
isn't too bad (and I didn't have enough knowledge of the 18th century to
know that those were French fashions that don't belong in Venice) and in the
second half the anachronisms are clearly deliberate and not intended to
really fool anybody (it's the insidious ones I don't like, they start myths
that you have to spend a long time beating out of new costumers, Scarlett
O'Hara's 16 inch waist is probably the biggest example). I agree with you
that the script was fabulous, the acting was also very good (with maybe one
or two exceptions among the minor characters).
*SPOILER ALERT* Don't read any further if you haven't seen the end and don't
want to find out whether it has a happy or sad ending (though I'm not giving
anything else away)
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And I bawled my eyes out at the end when the letter arrives.
Elizabeth
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Elizabeth Walpole
Canberra Australia
ewalpole[at]tpg.com.au
http://au.geocities.com/amiperiodornot/
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