I saw it - lord - 12 - 18 months ago (?) when it was originally aired on the beeb.
And I have to say, I thought the costumes were fantastic!! >From a historical perspective, absolutely pants, but, as already said, more in the vein of a knight's tale, meant to convey a particular impression to modern eyes - which I really do think it did brilliantly. Plus, it was incredibly well written and acted (Peter O'Toole and David Tennant in particular both as wonderful as ever). And me too on the bawling!! debs In a message dated 10/10/06 7:03:09 PM GMT Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Message: 6 > Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 01:17:57 +1000 > From: "Elizabeth Walpole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [h-cost] Casanova on PBS........ I was wonder too about > theclothes...... > To: "Historical Costume" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; > reply-type=original > > ----- Original Message ----- > 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* <snip> so nobody reads it by mistake!! _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
