When all else deserts him -- all purpose, all commitment, all vitality -- Fellini likely will still engineer projects with unstinting multimillion-dollar budgets, with eerie, enclosed, otherworldly sets, and with unsurpassed color work by his faithful cameraman Giuseppe Rotunno. He appears to be closing in on that goal in Casanova. Out of the notorious 18th-century libertine's mouth come the words, "You travel in lands that don't exist, I prefer the real world," and we are expected to recognize these as the words of a ninny, while Fellini guides us through the smoggy, trackless realm of his own fancy. Donald Sutherland's make-up, modeled after the transvestite actor Divine, is the best inspiration in the movie. (1976) — Duncan Shepherd
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