My cage seems bigger than yours but it is still a cage- Victoria Franco
Such is the life of a courtesan in Venice. Veronica embarks on a path of her life when she is unable to marry her love Marco. What then transpires is an interesting walking of the line between love and lust. She proves to have so much more freedom than the married women of the city and time period. She is allowed to consult with the men of the city, powerful men, she does so because she offers her body in return. The movie shows an interesting story arc that brings Veronica from the bottom to the most important Courtesan in Venice and arguably the most important person when she gets the French King to offer ships to Venice to assist what would have been a losing war.
The movie shows many insights to the world of prostitution that are interesting but I find the end of the movie almost unforgivable. I understand that Hollywood loves a happy ending but the Spartacus-esque ending to the inquisition courtroom scene was on of the biggest movie blunders with something that could not be considered a true story.
Despite all of that the story apart from the courtroom scene was very interesting and brought light to just how much power courtesan's held during the time period.
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