on YouTube. Oddly enough, was also on Masterpiece Theatre. Don't ask me why I never saw it when it first came out in 2005 - I had things to do :PIt's basically Giacomo Casanova (played by Peter O' Toole) in his later years, in his final place of employment as a librarian. He relates his life to a young servant girl Edith (played by pre-Damages
Rose Byrne), exploits and all. David Tennant plays the younger Casanova in the flashbacks. He found the love of his life that he could never have due to circumstances beyond their control, a fugitive most of his adult life, yada yada. He also got landed with one of his illegitimate kids, Giac along the way.
Image by lisby1 via FlickrThe sight of David Tennant with blue contacts just because O' Toole has blue eyes was a little disconcerting, mostly because people are familiar with his brown eyes. But on the plus side, he got the Doctor Who gig as a result, which lead to him being people's favourite Doctor.
Because he had to raise his son "Giac" (whose mum was one of the nuns he bonked) on the run, I thought it was a little odd how little the father's aged compared to the son, who was a child in the first episode to emo goth teenager by the final episode, ready to bonk his own sister (from another woman). Eep.
The show was pretty campy and a little ridiculous - the "sex" scenes were more comic than carnal. The ending was pretty bittersweet as well.
I think I'll go back to watching Hamlet again.
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