Thursday, April 7, 2022

The Stories about Music Films: 58. I, Don Giovanni (2009)





















 

Basic Info












Title: I, Don Giovanni

Genre: Drama, History, Music

Country: Spain, Italy, Austria

Language: German, Italian

Running time: 127 minutes

Release date: 23 October 2009


Staff












Director: Carlos Saura

Producer: Andrés Vicente Gómez, Andrea Occhipinti, Igor Uboldi

Screenplay: Carlos Saura, Raffaello Uboldi, Alessandro Vallini

Music: Nicola Tescari

Cinematography: Vittorio Storaro

Edited by: Julia Juaniz


Cast












Lorenzo Balducci as Lorenzo Da Ponte

Tobias Moretti as Giacomo Casanova

Lino Guanciale as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Emilia Verginelli as Annetta

Ennio Fantastichini as Antonio Salieri


Summary












"I, Don Giovanni" is a 2009 Spanish-Italian-Austrian collaboration drama film directed by Carlos Saura

The film tells the life of Lorenzo da Ponte, an Italian Freemason who did not give up his libertinism, despite the Roman Catholic Church's order to behave like a priest. The Holy Inquisition accuses da Ponte of betraying the Christian faith through his licentiousness and publication of criticisms against the church influenced by Casanova and orders him to be exiled. 

Then, his close friend Giacomo Casanova writes a letter introducing da Ponte to Antonio Salieri, before he leaves Venice for Vienna. Because of this, Salieri introduces him to Mozart and da Ponte writes "le Nozze di Figaro"

With Casanova's intervention, da Ponte persuades Mozart to publish a second edition of the "Don Giovanni", which was performed before the Emperor Joseph II, to great success.


Movie Review












Picturesque!”

A worthy take on Don Giovanni”

Enjoyable period piece with impressive production design, outstanding musical score and nice acting”

Operatic and beautiful”


Thank you.


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