For the first time in his life, the legendary Casanova (Ledger) is about to meet his match in an alluring feminist Venetian beauty, Francesca (Miller), who does the one thing he never thought possible, refuse him. Through a series of clever disguises and scheming ruses, he manages to get ever closer to Francesca, but he is playing a most dangerous game, one that will risk not only his life and reputation, but his only opportunity for true love. A charming period romance with lots of humour. find out more...

Moliere has yet to write his masterpiece 'Tartuffe', but looking back to his days as a destitue actor we see the origins of the plot; a socially ambitious nouveau riche, M Jourdain, wishes to learn to act in order to impress a certain young lady of high rank, so Moliere is rescued from debtors' prison, and, as Jourdain is married, given a job in his household disguised as a priest. So begins this clever and witty populist satire on period manners, court flummery, romantic entanglement, mimicry, find out more...