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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Brand: TYLER,LIV EAN: 0024543028338 Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC Label: 20th Century Fox Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: 20th Century Fox Region Code: 1 Release Date: January 08, 2002 Running Time: 118 minutes Sales Rank: 5380 Studio: 20th Century Fox Theatrical Release Date: June 14, 1996
Description: Director Bernardo Bertolucci explores one girl's personal journey into womanhood in this romantic adventure starring Liv Tyler and Jeremy Irons.
Amazon.com: Critics were decidedly mixed about this 1996 drama from Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci, and the movie enjoyed only a brief theatrical release. Now it's best known for its early appearance by Liv Tyler as a 19-year-old beauty named Lucy who summers at a villa in Tuscany with a variety of artistic types who immediately respond to her inspirational innocence. An amateur poet who has decided it's time to lose her virginity, Lucy has come to Italy after the death of her mother, who visited this artist's refuge 20 years earlier. Several young Italian men find Lucy quite heavenly (she is, after all, Liv Tyler), and she's not immune to their attentions, but she'd rather spend time with a playwright (Jeremy Irons) who is dying of AIDS and therefore has something other than sex on his mind. The movie's plot is about as substantial as Tyler's character (she's sexy, all right, but hardly an intellectual muse), but Stealing Beauty creates a serene mood that's so soothing you'll want to book a flight to Tuscany immediately, just to soak up the setting's idyllic atmosphere. If you're in the right frame of mind, this movie is like a balm for the soul, and Tyler and Bertolucci can share the credit for making this two-hour vacation so charmingly relaxing. --Jeff Shannon
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Rating: - Got virginity?
Stealing Beauty stars Liv Tyler, Jeremy Irons, Joseph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz, and a host of talented Italian actors. (I only mention the names preceding because those are probably the names you will recognize. Other than Tyler and Irons, most of the substantial roles seem to have been performed by Italian actors.)
At any rate, Tyler stars as Lucy Harmon, the 19-year-old, virginal daughter of a famous poet who has recently committed suicide. Lucy, upon going through her late mother's things, finds evidence that the man she thought was her father is not, indeed, her father. Her mother's ... Read More
Rating: - Dream On
Stealing Beauty is about Lucy Harmon (Liv Tyler), who goes to Italy to have her portrait done. Actually, a sculpture carved in wood with a chain saw. Do we ever see it? I don't think we ever do, but by then it isn't really so important. The portrait is the film, a portrait of a beautiful but awkward young woman, and the writers, artists, and Italians who come to this beautiful Italian villa for various reasons.
Lucy has other reasons for coming here besides sculpture, too. Her mother, Sara Harmon, was a poet who committed suicide. From her mothers notebooks she infers that she may have ... Read More
Rating: - Woman's Movie
In spite of Jeremy Irons and and Bertolucci directing, I was dissapointed in the sentimentality that surrounded this film.
Not for everyone. What I would call a "woman's movie" and not a high recommendation on my list.
Rating: - Good film.
Bernardo Bertolucci has given us another beautiful film. This one is set in the Italian countryside where a girl, coming of age, takes us through her confusions of love, sex, and people overall.
With an amazing cast that is anchored by the always great Jeremy Irons, Stealing Beauty is a great emotional tale. Liv Tyler is beautiful beyond belief in this film and the story keeps you interested with wonderful characters.
And for the guys, come on, it is worth it for getting to see Liv Tyler topless if nothing else, so I think it is a good movie for couples because the women will love it, ... Read More
Rating: - Beautiful and Graceful
This is a beautiful film. It's a spot on treatment on how people, particularly men, interact with a virginal young beauty. The Italian countryside is so beautiful. The flow of the film is slow and dreamy. What I loved about the characters is that they are all human and full of flaws like everybody else. I first watched this film when I was sixteen and now several years later it is just as stunning.
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