Casanova

With tongue firmly in cheek (and other places), Casanova is a delightful swashbuckling screwball-esque comedy with more quips than you can poke sword at, and is the slapstick side of the same bed inhabited by Johnny Depp's The Libertine. Ledger, after his sombre Oscar-nominated role in Brokeback Mountain, delights in his first real comedic turn as the infamous bounder and his sharp repartee with his long-suffering servant (the brilliant Omid Djalili) is on the money. Ledger's co-star Miller does more than just hang around for the wooing to commence as she takes centre stage more often than not; her Francesca is not another angry woman who hates herself for succumbing to the debaucher's advances. Meanwhile, Irons and Platt are more than just comic foils. Great lines abound - "Eternal damnation for one night with Casanova", to which the reply is, "Seems fair"