The film finds army officer Andrea dealing with a particularly strange case of impotence: his libido only gets aroused in the middle of near-death experiences. So while candle-lit dinners leave him ...

Rota, who scored most of Fellini’s films, including “La Dolce Vita” and “8 1/2,” really ventures into experimental territory in “Casanova.” Says Desplat: “I feel like Fellini might have told him, ...