A film of rare visual daring and imagination in which each frame is meticulously and attentively designed, Fellini's Casanova is one of the Italian maestro's most sumptuous productions. In an astonishing piece of screen acting, Donald Sutherland portrays Casanova in his waning days, engaging in various amorous and political adventures with an air of bored detachment as he travels through a disease-ridden Europe. Imbued with a romantic pessimism, the film debunks the myth of Casanova as a great lover and instead presents him as an ordinary man swept along by extraordinary circumstances.