there be two group of people . those who love every fellini movie they see and normal people . while i will admit that i have really enjoy some of his film and i can also honestly say that i can not stand some of them . my opinion and by the way and be not just some knee jerk reaction i have see most of fellini film and have also see many film by the world most famous director . with this in mind and i feel that the most overrated and annoy director can be both godard and fellini . they both have delight in the bizarre and often unwatchable and yet have receive gob of accolade from reviewer and the intelligensia and while the average person would never sit through some of their film . heck and even a person who love international cinema would generally be leave out in the cold when see some of these film . so and since only a small clique actually watch their film and they be already predispose to see the director a genius and it not surprise that their film be so often praise it like a cult . if you do not believe me and think about many of godard film such a first name carmen or alphaville and . or what about fellini satyricon or juliet of the spirit . these film abound with boredom and weirdness and incomprehensibility . now i be not say a film can not be weird ( after all i love happiness of the katakuris and shaolin soccer ) and but it must be watchable . now on to this movie . somehow and fellini have manage to make a story about a sexually compulsive man completely boring and unsexy . this be no small task it take a lot of work to make this so unwatchable . instead of cheap sexual thrill and the sex act be choreograph in a silly and annoy way while the character of casanova be bury under so much makeup and prosthetics that donald sutherland look like a ghoul . i know some of this must have be fellini intention and but many viewer will be leave completely bore by this sterile performance especially since sutherland line be all poorly dub into italian and so he neither look nor sound like himself . unfortunately and when the movie be not wrap up in these boring sexual escapade and there really isn not anything else to watch . an interesting note about the first sexual conquest show in this dull movie be that the actress look amazingly like a young version of fellini wife and giulietta masina . consider that in addition to this and that in previous decade fellini have masina play character such a a prostitute and a horribly abused woman and it seem like he may have truly hat his wife and be have this act out on screen . i read a bit about them and their tempestuous relationship and it seem to bear this out as well . this be about the only aspect of this turgid film that i find at all interesting . don not say i do not warn you .