TORONTO – Few historical figures have received the silver screen treatment, and those few tend to be depicted ad nauseum. In part, because the film industry [especially Hollywood] loves a sure bet. But film Producers can always bet the bank on the salacious lives of history’s scofflaws, scoundrels and con artists. Enter Giacomo Casanova, an 18th century Venetian writer and “adventurer”. To date, his story has been adapted to screen almost a dozen times, from a Hungarian silent film in 1918 to Michiel Van Erp’s most recent attempt, titled A Beautiful Imperfection…
