Casanova TV Miniseries (2005) by Beth Freed - Dailymotion

Beth Freed

After a life spent seeking pleasure and decadence, Casanova seeks his one true love, Henriette.

Transcript

00:00We ran out of the wall, but stayed close, so we could linger with the little stolen

00:08music and finish the dance.

00:38We should make plans for tomorrow, because your fiancé's not going to be too pleased.

01:07We should lie low for a bit. I've got this friend. He's practically second cousin to

01:12the illegitimate daughter of the Doge. He can get a special dispensation to leave the

01:15city. We can just slip away, over the water, out of the lagoon and gone.

01:19And then what?

01:20I've got friends in Trentino. Nice little villa. No servants. We can hide. Just you

01:26and me.

01:27And then what?

01:28Well, like I said, we'll wait a couple of months and then we'll come back.

01:30And then what?

01:31Well, then we can start a proper life together.

01:34And then what?

01:36What do you mean, and then what? And then do whatever we want.

01:38And then what?

01:39I don't know.

01:40Exactly. You're making it up as you go along.

01:43I've always done that, and I've always survived. And so have you.

01:48Romani knows what he's doing every day for the rest of his life. His family's been here

01:52for centuries, never changing.

01:58But you've left him.

01:59I'm not with him right now. Doesn't mean I've left him.

02:06Then what are you doing with me?

02:08Just one dance.

02:13I love you.

02:14For God's sake.

02:15I do.

02:16What's the point of saying that? To get me into bed?

02:18Marry me.

02:19Stop it.

02:20Henriette, will you marry me?

02:25How much money have you got?

02:27Enough.

02:28Do you know where the next purse is coming from?

02:30Is it all about money?

02:31Yes, it is. Of course it is. Everything is.

02:33Then I'll get money. You've seen me. I'm a born alchemist. I can magic gold out of thin air.

02:37And lose it again.

02:42Come on. Come with me.

02:44Where are we going?

02:46I'm taking you home.

02:57I was born here, and I will never come back.

03:00I was born with hardly a thing.

03:03As bad as this?

03:06Your money comes and goes on a whim.

03:09Romani's money is forever.

03:11My children will grow up protected.

03:14But you won't be happy.

03:16Idiots are happy. I'll be safe.

03:19I could never live like that.

03:22No.

03:24I don't think you could.

03:27Which only proves that you deserve better than me.

03:33We should go before the smell contaminates us.

03:39You're with the wrong man.

03:41I know.

03:43You haven't said.

03:46Do you love me?

03:50Yes.

03:53Yes.

03:56Completely.

03:59But I need him.

04:01And...

04:05Thank you for tonight.

04:09Thank you for the dance.

04:30She went back to him.

04:36I'd never do that.

04:38Oh, says the kitchen girl.

04:40Lapping up stories of the rich folk.

04:43Don't you want better?

04:45But she loved you.

04:46But she was right.

04:48Look at me.

04:50An old librarian in a cold castle.

04:55Henriette saw this waiting for me.

05:00Did you see her again? You must have, did you?

05:06I did.

05:07But how?

05:09It seems important to you that this story has a happy ending.

05:12You can't blame me for that.

05:14No, indeed.

05:15Girls your age with no experience like to imagine it all ends well.

05:19Is that right, though?

05:22No experience at all?

05:24I've told you.

05:26I'm as God intended until my wedding night.

05:30But you must have practiced.

05:32Everyone practices.

05:34Who was it, that boy you grew up with?

05:37Did you fight with him one day for just a little too long?

05:41Or perhaps that friend of your father's?

05:44The way he looked at you.

05:46And you liked it.

05:48I can't think why it's important.

05:50Is that what I am?

05:52Practice?

06:01If you want me to go, sir...

06:04No.

06:06Sit down.

06:17I had to endure it.

06:21Grimaldi and Henriette.

06:23At every turn, there they were, blessed and celebrated by society.

06:28The date of their wedding was set for that winter.

06:32And all I could do was watch.

07:03The Wedding

07:22Bless me, Father, for I have sinned.

07:24Again.

07:26Um... I don't know where to start.

07:28Um...

07:30It's money, Father.

07:32Love of money is a sin, isn't it?

07:34A grave sin.

07:36I don't love it as such, but I need it. Is that a sin?

07:39In too great a measure, then, yes.

07:41It's not for me. You see, there's this woman.

07:44I suppose you can include lustful thoughts while you're at it.

07:47There's this woman, but she's engaged.

07:49And all this went on behind her fiancé's back.

07:52Not literally.

07:54Although I have actually done that.

07:56Anyway, first of all, I was with another woman, and I slept with her, sorry.

08:00Well, I slept with her lots of times, so very sorry.

08:04But before that, she was a man.

08:06I was going to sleep with a man, sorry.

08:08But it turned out she had a false penis down her trousers.

08:11So I slept with her, without the false penis, obviously.

08:14Although we did find a way of using it.

08:16But never mind that.

08:18I was just trying to be honest, like the sisters told me.

08:21Oh, yeah, two sisters. I slept with them, both at the same time.

08:25Er, lots of times, I suppose I should mention that.

08:28Oh, dear God! I know, I know.

08:30But at least I didn't sleep with their mother.

08:33Although I have actually done that.

08:36I suppose you should put that on the list.

08:38Two sisters and a mother and...

08:41Oh, and those nuns. Two nuns. You might know them.

08:45So, all in all, it's been a bit of a time, really, and I've ended up penniless.

08:51So, what do you think I should do, Father?

08:56Father?

08:59Father?

09:04Appointment of mercury applied directly to the chest.

09:07Send to the leech farm.

09:09Um, excuse me, but I don't think that's doing him any good.

09:11Bleed him from the groin.

09:12It's brain fever. Bottle his spit and feed it back.

09:15No, really, excuse me.

09:17Open the skull.

09:18I don't mean to be rude, but you're making it worse.

09:20Just give him water and let him rest.

09:23What would you do, sir? Murder him?

09:25Now, keep out of the way.

09:26Suck out the spinal fluid.

09:27I've read about this. I know what I'm talking about. I swear.

09:30Have this man taken out. He's not even qualified.

09:33I'm trying to help.

09:34Take out his tongue.

09:35Pliers!

09:38Leave him alone!

09:40You are killing this man, and by God, I won't let that happen.

09:44Now, get out of this room.

09:48Out!

09:59If he dies, then you can arrest me.

10:05But let me try.

10:19There you are.

10:22That's it.

10:30That's it. Little pause.

10:35One more time.

10:41I can't read you that. It's filthy.

10:43Oh, let me see.

10:44Shame on you.

10:45It's filthy.

10:46Oh, let me see.

10:47Shame on you. God is watching.

10:56I told you he was putting it on.

10:58Oh, says the charlatan.

11:02Look at you, back at work.

11:04That's why I wanted to see you, and I want no arguments. Is that understood?

11:09But you saved my life, Giacomo.

11:12My fault in the first place.

11:13No, no, no. I'd be cold in the earth if it wasn't for you.

11:17I've had the procurator draw this up.

11:22The church has been my family all my life.

11:27I had no son to benefit from my estate,

11:31until I found a son in you.

11:36In that deed, there is an allowance and property and the right to inheritance.

11:42I suppose it could be in safer hands, but none more deserving.

11:52Sir, your family's been part of the aristocracy for centuries.

11:57If I accepted this, I'd become nobility itself.

12:04That's too much, sir. I can't take it.

12:06Oh, all right, then.

12:13I'm...

12:16rich?

12:20I'm rich! I'm rich! I'm rich! I'm rich! I'm rich!

12:27I'm rich.

12:32This isn't just a quick purse of money gone by tomorrow.

12:35It's proper, old, steeped-in-the-land money.

12:39And everything I've got is for you.

12:41If you could put that in writing.

12:43Really, though, Jack, you're a dangerous man.

12:45You could lose money in a gold mine.

12:47Don't squander this.

12:49This is tied to the Braggarton family.

12:51Their land and their estates, it's forever.

12:56So where does that leave us?

13:00If you're worried about Grimani, I'll tell him. I'm not scared.

13:03I don't want to fight.

13:05No, but I mean, I don't think you should.

13:07I don't want to fight.

13:08No, but I mean, I'd go to see him in your name.

13:12This has to be done with honour.

13:14Grimani said he loved me. He gave me this ring.

13:17I should be the one to tell him.

13:20Then you will?

13:22Yeah.

13:23You'll tell him?

13:24Yeah.

13:26That we're engaged?

13:28Yeah.

13:29We're engaged?

13:31Am I going too fast?

13:34Oh, bloody hell!

13:36Oh, my Lord, look, I got this. I bought it.

13:39I didn't know if you'd want to. I thought you might, but...

13:42Oh, bollocks! I'm sorry. Hold on.

13:47I found it.

14:13I find myself a son, and next minute, a daughter.

14:21I saw Grimani this morning. A broken man, the poor soul.

14:24Well, his family owns half of Venice. He won't be sad for long.

14:27But you're all driving mail. You're the talk of the town.

14:30They've drawn caricatures. Your faces are everywhere.

14:33Congratulations, sir.

14:35Mum, may I say, it's about bloody time.

14:39You cheeky dog.

14:41You know, I don't think I need a manservant anymore.

14:43Rocco, you're dismissed.

14:45And as Casanova's wife, I'll need a head of household.

14:48Rocco, you're promoted.

14:50Tell me, though, dear lady, what's it like bedding this handsome man?

14:53What's he got hidden away?

14:55Oh, draw me pictures.

14:57I'm afraid I can't, I wouldn't know. Not to a woman.

15:00Giacomo, a virgin? When do the wheel turn upside down?

15:03Sorry, but it's true.

15:05What's wrong? Are you ill?

15:07It's the only power a woman has, and I won't give mine away.

15:09But I don't have to wait long. We're getting married next week.

15:12Braggarton's conducting the service. Casanova and his bride.

15:16Giacomo Casanova,

15:18I arrest you in the name of the great council of Venice

15:21for offences against the government and church.

15:24You are to be confined within the city boundaries

15:26until such time as charges can be brought.

15:28Such charges be

15:30the theft of property from the house of Grimani

15:33and the defamation of the Grimani name.

15:35Let me go!

15:37Jack! Jack!

15:39Let me go!

15:41Let me go!

15:43Let me go!

15:45Let me go!

15:47Jack!

15:49Jack!

15:51Jack!

15:54...the inquisition.

15:56That you did, by your public confession,

15:58act as a spy against this state with intent to betray city defences.

16:01That you did assault various persons

16:03within the families Tosello, Cavamacci, Imer and Bertaggio.

16:07That you did fraudulently impersonate various professions

16:10with the intent to steal money and cause physical harm.

16:13That you did assault and threaten the life of the court physician

16:16and defame his name and reputation.

16:19That you did impersonate a nobleman

16:21with the intent of robbing the house of Bragadin

16:23and defrauding the family of its inheritance.

16:26And against these charges, my lords,

16:28the prosecution demands the maximum sentence

16:30to be instituted forthwith.

16:33Guilty!

16:52KNOCK AT DOOR

16:54What did they get you for?

16:58A woman.

17:00How long did you get?

17:0415 years.

17:06But don't worry about me, I won't be here long.

17:08Oh, don't tell me.

17:10I know.

17:12You've got friends and contacts and powerful men.

17:15They'll have you out by tomorrow.

17:17I have got contacts. I'm the adopted son of a nobleman.

17:19Adopted son?

17:22Not true, nobility.

17:25I bet the judges could smell it.

17:28They despise a man for rising above his station.

17:31If you're waiting for a pardon, you'll wait a long time.

17:34Then I'll find another way out.

17:36Ah, but that's the genius of this place.

17:39We're not locked in a dungeon.

17:41No, we're up in the roof.

17:43Ten floors up at the top of the Ducal Palace.

17:47If you get past that locked door, then there's another.

17:50And then another.

17:52And another.

17:54Ten floors of them.

17:56You'd need to be a magician.

17:58Are you a magician?

18:00I can be.

18:02Then magic's failed you.

18:04I've been here 12 carnivals and no man's escaped.

18:07They tempt us with a carnival every year.

18:10You can hear the festivities.

18:12The music carries up.

18:14It's part of the punishment.

18:17Dancing and singing.

18:19It all goes on.

18:21Hundreds of feet down.

18:24All of the city.

18:26Dancing and singing.

18:29And forgetting.

18:39Then there was Christina.

18:41She used to sleep naked with her uncle, a priest.

18:45Well, I mean, I had to put a stop to that, didn't I?

18:47I said, you can share my bed.

18:49What did she look like?

18:51Braven black hair.

18:53Long white neck.

18:54Tiny waist.

18:56Magnificent chest.

18:58Oh, yes.

18:59I said, let's both lie here naked.

19:02Let's see if we can both lie here and not move in the dark.

19:06Oh, yes.

19:08I looked at her.

19:10Reached out towards her, and not with my hand.

19:13Oh, my God.

19:14Touched her.

19:16Pressed up against her.

19:18Faster, faster.

19:21To be continued.

19:22You can't stop there.

19:27Any good?

19:28Read it before.

19:30In French and Latin, I've had time to read them all.

19:37What about Henriette? Any word?

19:39Well, I'm not sure.

19:40There's a story going round, but...

19:45Hey, Braggarton's given me a job running the stables.

19:48He's a nice bloke.

19:49Don't let him down. What story?

19:55It's more than just a story, sir.

19:59It's Sunday night.

20:01This Sunday coming.

20:05And it's not her fault, mind.

20:07There was nothing else she could do.

20:09Henriette was with you, sir.

20:10She was engaged to the city's most infamous criminal.

20:13She was disgraced.

20:14She's been an outcast for months now.

20:17She didn't have any choice.

20:22She's getting married, sir.

20:24Sunday night.

20:26To Grimani.

20:29You don't have to call me sir any more.

20:31I don't even think he wants her.

20:33The bastard.

20:34It's just his revenge against you.

20:36She'll be rich.

20:37That's not it.

20:38I swear to God, sir, she doesn't want him.

20:40But Grimani, he's done everything.

20:43He's summoned her sisters.

20:44He's set them up with rooms and clothes.

20:46It's like he's bought her out right.

20:48What the hell was I saying?

20:49I don't know.

20:50I don't know.

20:51I don't know.

20:52I don't know.

20:53I don't know.

20:54I don't know.

20:55I don't know.

20:56I don't know.

20:57It's like, what the hell with her sisters?

20:58She doesn't have to marry.

20:59She could just run.

21:01You could do that, sir.

21:02A man could do it easily.

21:03You sound like her.

21:06You've seen her.

21:08What did she say?

21:09Did she ask about me?

21:10What did she say?

21:12She can't visit you, sir.

21:15She's disgraced enough.

21:16Tell me what she said.

21:19She came to the lodging, sir.

21:22She was distraught, sir.

21:24I was just cleaning out your room and she arrived didn't say a word just

21:33She took off her engagement ring

21:37She took the diamond and she used it

21:42She scratched on the window

21:44And

21:54She left you a message, what does it say?

22:10So she thinks I'll just forget no sir, it's

22:15An instruction

22:22You can go

22:25It's not over though you'll win that appeal you will in the end get out there steal her back I can't

22:32Once she's married, that's it. Come on. He now owns her entire family. She would never sacrifice her

22:41She's gone

22:44I

22:51Said you can go

23:14I

23:44I

24:14I

24:44I

25:00Can get you out, this is my home

25:04Do what you like and tell them I had better things to do what if there's no way down

25:09I'll find it and then what you can't stay in the city. You'll be a fugitive

25:15You'll be exiled from Venice for the rest of your life. I'll come back

25:19You'll never see this place again. And what then lost abroad with no money

25:24No title don't position and I'll hunt you down. They'll never forget. You'll never stop running

25:31You'll still be a prisoner wherever you go

25:34Is it worth it magician?

25:37Is it worth it?

25:40Henriette did you see her again? She found me

25:43And I suppose led me to an even greater love

25:49Who is that

25:53You've got to tell me the rest not giving up now

25:57Henrietta Marnie. I

26:00Remember my father reading out her name one last time

26:04When Napoleon's troops stood at the gates of Venice and the council met and surrendered

26:11They say as the city was dissolved after a thousand years the widows were lamenting

26:16And Henriette was there. It was just a mention

26:19But she was one of them

26:22It was always the ladies my father always picked out their names, I think you'd have liked him

26:31Sir

26:33You

26:39What that was last year

26:45The dissolution of Venice was last year. Yes last year. That's right. So may the 12th. Oh

26:54My god

26:56You didn't know

26:57It's alive sir, she's still alive and she's a widow

27:02Grimani's dead

27:03She's hot there. So she's still out there

27:28You

27:34They're not today that's gonna cost how can he afford it? Who are they messengers?

27:39He's sending out letters him upstairs. Mr. Cass of bloody Nova. What sort of letters? I don't know. They're going to Venice

27:47Urgent he said some sort of panic a bit of lucky might be in trouble

27:52If he gets the sack, I'm gonna kick him all the way down the hill. You'll just watch me

27:58I

28:10Had to sneak away I saw the horsemen I've written to the Grimani estate

28:14The summer house even the convent one of them's bound to reach her and it's a minimum of two days a day to reach

28:21Venice and a day to return I could hear from her by tomorrow

28:28Well, you won't prove anything standing out here come back to your room it's freezing come now

28:39Here we are

28:40Now sit down and rest. You shouldn't go exerting yourself. You look worn out. You've only seen me by candlelight

28:46I'll remember that with Henrietta eyes. I look better in the dark. You can't know for sure that she's still alive

28:52It's only something my father read the moment you said it it made sense and I've been hiding in this castle

28:58She'll think me long since perished. She never told her where you were. I deserve to be forgotten

29:05What did you do?

29:08All right, what's changed now then Henry as a widow and for my part I found you oh, yes me

29:14I'm the answer to everything. What have I done?

29:18It brought me back to life

29:23But I've only had half the story I want to hear everything then come back to a knife

29:33Couldn't get here any sooner

29:35Here you are. I don't think anyone saw me

29:38The cellar's almost empty. Stuart's men are drinking it dry

29:41Hot place is running wild with the master gone. Oh

29:47Two cups

29:50One's for me I like it gives the impression we're dining together. It's just a drink indeed

30:01Get on with the story

30:03Where were we?

30:05Leaving Venice wasn't the end of my life. I

30:09Fled the city and my new life began. I

30:12Was a fugitive an outlaw exiled from home

30:17Stripped of money and possessions and title with only my wits to help me survive

30:26Morning you look like shit. Well, I look like you watch your lip commoner. Yeah. Come on. Oh

30:37I must be stinking. I don't think I've been followed but we must hurry

30:42The whole town is talking about your escape you can take the carriage. This is all the money

30:47They would allow me to withdraw. It's not much 500 zucchini. Is that all they know? I'm your patron

30:55You could post me money send it by messenger Jack. Oh, they're watching me. You've endangered all of us

31:02There you go. Come on up meet up

31:06And you owe me for that I'm keeping a tab

31:12Where

31:15Will you go

31:18There is a chance

31:20Venetian ambassadors abroad have the authority to pardon you they could clear your name and you could come back

31:27What for Henry? It's married. I've lost her. You seem to be forgetting. You're innocent. You deserve to be pardoned

31:35Come home Jack

31:38There's

31:40An ambassador in Paris, that'd be good. I fancy a bit of France

31:44Yeah, the girls the food the vino calypso you'd come with me. No, you'd come with me. You're the criminal carry my bags

31:55Thank you, no, I think it's soft no, but thank you. Thank you

32:02And I'll make it work Rocco we'll go to Paris the two of us together

32:08That's the three of us

32:12You're not coming surely

32:14We know no, I'm not

32:24They named him after you Jack, this is your father

32:33Casanova and son

32:38His

32:42Mother was Teresa Cacioli. She died on Easter Day and the boy was brought to me

32:48Last request was that Jack should know his father. How do you know that me she could be lying

32:52She was a nun. Yeah, but the mother dead the convent was forbidden to keep him. Can't he stay with you?

32:59I represent the church. It would bring scandal at my house. I'm on the run

33:04Brings that better than living on the street. I were rather he was safe in the hands of a very clever

33:15Teresa

33:18You know, she looked like she was a nun

33:22Lot of you I suspect there are hundred pastors with your features. You're lucky. You're only saddled with one

33:29And maybe this is what you need

33:32Someone more important than the next conquest all those disasters. Is that the way to live your life?

33:41It's the grace of God a chance to start again you can help the boy

33:47educate him

33:49Yeah, inspire. Yes impart your wisdom. Yes, make him a man. Yes. Absolutely

33:55Yes, did you leave me any money? She was a nun

34:02Oh

34:12And this is nice

34:21Here we are the wheels on the carriage go round and round

34:32Jack we're going to Paris and Paris is capital of

34:39France I'll be testing you on this

34:43That's my name people call me Jack. Can we change his name? No

34:48Lorenzo Caesar

34:50Marco Stefano Giovanni Alison

34:55No

34:57He looks nothing like me

35:05Are we there yet

35:08We traveled across Europe borrowing money and stealing clothes

35:12Arriving in Paris at the celebrated court of King Louis the 15th

35:16Right

35:20I need a title. What's my title?

35:24Well, let's make one up

35:26What's the name of that river we pass the same same the same?

35:31saying name

35:34So fix saying God saying God yes, I shall gain access to the court as the chevalier

35:46Just

35:51Just wait there just stay

35:58Sing out not heard of it. Is that a significant territory enormous? And where is it exactly?

36:04It's not so much a place more of a state of mind now, sir

36:08All I require is an audience with the Venetian ambassador delighted sir. You speak very good French, by the way. Thank you

36:13How's my act well Italian obviously, but the ladies might like it now sir, it's my pleasure to welcome you to the royal court

36:43Oh

37:01It's super in the summer. Oh my goodness. You're handsome. Yes. I am. What brings you to Paris?

37:06I just need to see the Venetian ambassador at your service. Oh

37:10Fuck me your head. Yes. I am. And you know, I won't

37:15My name is Giacomo Casanova that Chevalier de Sango and I just need a favor. Could you call that handsome?

37:26Look at you

37:27Think I knew you when you were a boy Jack. It's glorious. I'm such a success

37:32And don't think I'm not grateful. It's all you're doing. Oh, I was just a passenger you had a talent all of your own

37:39I'd still be in hiding if you hadn't found me now. I'm singing on every stage and celebrated across Europe

37:46And you oh, I'm fine. Everything's marvelous. Yeah, I

37:51Heard about what happened takes more than prison bars to stop me

37:55about Henriette

38:00Was she worth it? Yes

38:04I'm sorry

38:06Yeah

38:09Still you can move on now, that's what you've always done. Oh

38:18Sweetheart I

38:20Wish there was something I could do, but I've simply got to go. I'm doing Naples of all places

38:25I've got 17 engagements and it's all so busy. It's super you'll be fine Jack

38:30I'll say a prayer, but I don't know anyone else. Can you stay just for a bit? I haven't even packed yet

38:34Oh, if you knew my schedule, they're aiming a horse after me. Oh, I'm sorry. Don't forget me Jack

38:42Wait a minute. Did you say Casanova the man who escaped from prison climbed over the roof? That's me. Oh sweet Lord. You're famous

38:49They've written the pretzels about you and everything

38:53That's me

39:04I

39:21Need to pop back to Venice just a little bit of business

39:24That's all and um, well, I thought that you could grant me a pardon and clear my name gosh, that would be nice

39:29Can you do it impossible, but I'm entirely innocent of every charge against me. That doesn't matter

39:33You're just too famous. Now. Your name's a liability. If I forgave you, I'd lose all credibility

39:39Sorry, but I've got to get back

39:42Oh for God's sake yes

39:44I might understand that you falsified your way to the court of King Louis the 15th when you are in fact a convict a criminal and

39:50an escapee

40:03I

40:12Told you to light your way in there and have a made you king right now lost your neck. It's different now

40:17I'm gonna be legitimate. I'm a father. I've got responsibilities

40:21Where is he Jack?

40:24He'll

40:26It's my duty to earn a living and to earn it honestly for his sake. I come second now. It's all for him

40:33My father was a fool and a cuckold and he died when I was seven. I want a Jack down in the same way

40:38I'll set an example

40:40No

40:41More than that. I'm an inspiration father is the god of a child's world. That's why I am to him the creator

40:49plenty of fathers in this situation would

40:51Despair and send the child of a chimney, but not me. I will find money and I will support

40:58All I need is one good idea

41:03It's

41:04Stupid bloody money these French are crazy. They should have the same coin everywhere right across Europe much easier Jack

41:10Where is he now?

41:13The way I see it you got look at your options to earn an honest living ask yourself this what are you good at?

41:19Hmm one music you can write for the opera play your fiddle sing doesn't pay that much us now

41:25That's one. Okay to teaching you can do languages and sums and things

41:31You could be a chewer

41:32Think about it three

41:35Sex. Well, actually that's number one find a wealthy widow get rich of the otter. So you decide what's it gonna be? One, two, three

41:43Go on choose one of them

41:45Your choice lucky dip one, two, three pick a number

41:51Go on pick a number

41:57One

42:01Four

42:18They see it's a brand new scheme, it's like a lottery

42:21In fact, that's what it is a lottery right across the nation a national lottery. What would you call it?

42:26I don't know King could make a fortune with 10% for me and you could even give some of the money to good causes

42:33God help with that

42:34But you think people would actually play I've got to be in it to win it and just think

42:39Could be you by God Casanova. Let's do it release the balls

42:56Oh

42:58Oh

43:00Oh

43:23You invented the lottery you don't believe me and it's on public record

43:29You became a millionaire. Oh, yes. Well, then never mind the law or the ambassadors

43:33That's enough money to sweep back home and claim Henrietta's your own except while I made my fortune the rest of the world didn't stand

43:40still

43:41Court circulars would arrive from Venice and with them came the news

43:47Henrietta had born Primani a child

43:50The one thing that would keep her married always

43:54My money meant nothing

43:56Henrietta would never risk the safety of her child. She was further away than ever

44:01I

44:25Miss Jack now you can be proud of me Maison Casanova

44:2925 staff and a ballroom and a library and a room just for the wrapping of presents

44:37We've got everything

44:39Isn't your old dad clever?

44:41Isn't he? Oh

44:44Yes, he is

44:48And look your father's written a book you see it's the story of my time in prison it's a bestseller, isn't that good

44:56And look at this, it's a lyric by Voltaire and it mentions me

45:02Voltaire's and famous and clever and well

45:06Yeah, I can't stand the man, but isn't that good my name?

45:11Anything

45:16And look look look look at this

45:19I've written an opera for singers with a list

45:22I've written an opera for singers with a lisp. It's almost entirely devoid of the letter s. Isn't that clever?

45:31Jack aren't you proud of me? Oh

45:35Yes, you are

45:37Tell me you're proud gone

45:41Jack tell me you're proud

45:43I

45:50Anyway father's a very busy man

45:55If he's an idiot I talk and talk and give nothing back maybe if it wasn't all about you

46:04Well, I don't know anyone else

46:07Give him some food. There's a good chap. I've really got to go. I'm a very busy man doing what?

46:14French lessons

46:33He's the very model of me every home should have one

46:36He's got little cuffs and everything look at his lips

46:39He's a perfect little doll actually most women prefer big Casanova. That's true. He puts the cheval in Chevalier

46:48Now Jack, I don't think you've met everyone. This is count Eduardo Toretta. He's one of yours. He's from Treviso

46:54Madame de Gershi. Oh, and this is my mother's albion. Oh

46:59I say this looks like fun. What's going on?

47:02It's an execution a private showing just for us an exclusive who's the prisoner that's Damien

47:07Do you must have heard of Damien's he's become even more famous than you how bad

47:12You tried to assassinate the king

47:14Everyone's a critic. So what happens they're going to peel off his skin with pincers

47:18They keep him conscious so he's fully awake when they chop his torso into four and then he's burned

47:23gosh

47:25You think that it meant something faster a bit more excuse me sir perhaps. I should take Jack inside

47:30Oh, but he can't miss this

47:32Shame on you Rocco. You're always saying I don't do anything for him

47:35It's beginning

48:00You

48:18Dead

48:21All of them dead

48:25Executed

48:28Every single person I knew in that city is dead slaughtered by the revolution

48:38And I was almost one of them I

48:47Sometimes think

48:50Perhaps the people of France

48:53First began to revolt when the lottery changed their lives peasants could equal their masters

48:59If I hadn't invented that game, so he calls the French Revolution. It's a hypothesis

49:08I'm only suggesting did you really invent the lottery I?

49:13Haven't got over the fact that you made up your own title my title would have had me

49:17Decapitated if I'd stayed in Paris

49:20Long before the bloodshed I devised my own downfall

49:34I'll see yours and

49:37Raise you ten thousand

49:40I'll see yours and raise you a hundred thousand

49:44I

49:48Then declare

50:08Come on hurry up pack your stuff. We're gonna get out of here. This is private property. Of course it is this your house

50:14ah

50:17You lost it gambling no no no not the coach to the coast that's not mine anymore hurry up the baiters are coming

50:28You gambled away millions better hurry up. I can't all the way my teeth your teeth a nice head

50:36You lost your entire fortune

50:44Rocco

50:46Absolutely nothing

50:47Isn't it brilliant? Yeah? I think it is

50:50We're pioneers will start again to the horizon and beyond

50:55Whoa

50:58I've got nothing to go. Oh, yes

51:03Come on play time I

51:06I

51:08Reinvented myself before and I could do it again, so we set out for new territory

51:15England in the reign of King George the second

51:19This blessed plot this sceptre dial this England

51:24What do we think bloody freezing?

51:28Jack anything

51:32Anything

51:36Then pay attention both of you English lesson the currency is different here. They spend guineas

51:42Scratching in public is forbidden. That's for you Rocco, but not that look over there observe

51:47That's disgusting. That's England. I don't piss in doorways like we do they're right out in the open

51:53These English are crazy and the food tastes different. I'm told the milk is terrible

51:57Oh, and a lot of the men are homosexual that might something to do with the milk

52:02I'm not now then I've got just enough to pay for a carriage to London. That's a capital city Jack

52:08London and apparently the transports marvelous all the carriages are clean and punctual and fast and safe the envy of Europe

52:15Now let's have a think I've still got French coins

52:22We need to get them changed, I think you go to the customs house

52:26And then I've got contacts in London and mrs. Cornelis. She's the daughter of an actor

52:31I once knew

52:36She can give us lodging she has an address in Soho Square

52:42And failing that there's a there's a coffee house called the Prince of Orange we could apply for rooms

53:01Oh

53:31I

54:01You

54:31You

55:01You

55:13What was she doing in England, why was she there the family was in Venice, what was she doing?

55:19Did you ever find out why she was there? Yes?

55:24What the hell was she doing here

55:27One be a good news according to the ship's manifest. She wasn't traveling with her husband

55:31So what's she doing here without him?

55:33There's no good asking me. Let's get on a boat and follow. She's just across the channel wanna go and get her

55:37She wasn't in black

55:39So Grimani still alive. She's still married. Well, it's never stopped. Yeah, she's a mother now

55:45She'd honor her children and their home above anything

55:49Grimani just keeps on winning

55:52It's not as if he loves her I only married her to punish me

55:55Why

55:58England see you're sitting here trying to work out what a woman's thinking which means you'll sit here to the crack of doom

56:05Bollocks to it. Think of Jack for once. It's about time. You found him a proper Rome and I don't mean this dump

56:11I'm in Venice. Remember what we came here

56:13Go to the English court find a Venetian ambassador ask for a pardon and take that boy home

56:19What do you think?

56:22Well shift your ass then come on

56:33Never lose your heart Jack don't let them take it

56:51You

57:21You

Casanova (2005) TV Miniseries | Peter O'Toole, David Tennant & Rose Byrne | Part 02

Category

Transcript

Casanova TV Miniseries (2005)

Recommended