Synopsis
Casanova was only a warm-up act for 18th-century bisexual Portuguese poet Manuel Maria du Bocage (Victor Wagner), the "sworn enemy of hypocrites and priests." On a quest for the purity of love as he travels widely, crossing continents with companion Josino (Francisco Farinelli), Bocage declares, "I cannot refuse anything that wants to be loved." Bocage's allegorical epigrams, odes, and satires are expressed, while he encounters phantasmagorical creations (angels, Aphrodite, a merman, a sorcerer-gorilla...more