Hugely successful, critically acclaimed filmmaker Leo Bernadi (played with endearing world weary charm by the excellent Toni Servillo) is approaching the end of his career but refuses to accept his slow decline. Strangely, the film he just finished shooting is inspired by a novel about the legendary ladies’ man, Casanova, a character Leo realizes is eerily similar to himself. Leo’s Casanova has lost his powers of attraction over women, plus he’s broke and simply wants to go back home to Venice. While traveling home, however, this aging Casanova meets a beautiful woman named Marcoline. She reawakens his desire, but his attempts at seduction are now fraught with new, unfamiliar risks. In this entertaining “art imitates life” tale, it is not lost on Leo why he decided to tell this story at such a pivotal moment of his life. But will his destiny as an old man match that of Casanova’s?