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September 2005
Miller Launches
Casanova 'Romp'
Actress
Sienna Miller has joked about her own
troubled love life at the launch of her
new film Casanova at the Venice Film
Festival.
The
23-year-old appears with rising Australian
star Heath Ledger, 26, who plays the
fabled serial womaniser.
Miller
found herself in the tabloid spotlight
after her ex-fiance Jude Law admitted an
affair with his nanny.
"I've
met a few Casanovas that I've liked, and a
few that I haven't - and I hope to meet
some more," she said.
Miller
broke off their engagement after news of
Law's affair broke, and appeared at the
Venice press conference without her
engagement ring.
However,
at Saturday evening's premiere, she
refused to talk to reporters about her
relationship with Law.
In
director Lasse Hallstrom's film, Ledger's
Casanova falls for a woman who spurns him,
played by Miller, whose last role was in
1960s remake Alfie.
Ledger
has already won plaudits at Venice for his
role as as a cowboy trying to come to
terms with his homosexuality in Ang Lee's
Brokeback Mountain, which is appearing in
competition at Venice.
He told
the press Casanova was a "working holiday"
in comparison with Brokeback
Mountain.
Hallstrom,
whose film credits include Chocolat and
The Cider House Rules, said he aimed to
make his Casanova a lighter film than its
predecessors.
"Obviously,
this is a romp, this is a comedy. We've
taken a lot of liberties but we've tried
to stay true to the atmosphere of Venice
at the time," he said.
"Casanova
had a true understanding of women. He
could get into the minds of women and see
to their needs. That's what we've kept in
the film."
The
movie, which is screening out of
competition, is due out in the US at
Christmas, and the UK in
February.
Hallstrom
was given access to some of the city's
most famous sites, including St Mark's
Square and the Doges' Palace.
"We were
allowed into places that nobody has ever
been allowed to shoot before," Hallstrom
said.
"It was
like shooting a movie inside a museum,"
Ledger added.
The real
Casanova, who boasted relationships with
more than 100 women in his memoirs, was
the son of actors and rubbed shoulders
with luminaries such as Russia's Catherine
the Great and French philosopher
Voltaire.
But
plagued by venereal disease from an early
age, Casanova died in exile, having fled
Venice's Piombi prison.
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