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Stealing Beauty | Year: 1996 Classification: Drama Actors/Actresses: - Liv Tyler - Rachel Weisz - Jeremy Irons - Bernando Bertolucci Beautiful film After a trio of exotic disappointments (The Last Emperor, The Sheltering Sky, Little Buddha), director Bernardo Bertolucci teturned to his native Italy for the first time in fifteen years with Stealing Beauty. The result is his most intimate film since Last Tango In Paris, a coming-of-age tale in which 19-year-old Lucy Harmon (Liv Tyler) travels from America to Tuscany to spend time with family friends following her mother's suicide. She has a couple of ulterior motives for taking the trip--to discover the real identity of her father and lose her virginity to Niccolo, an Italian boy who was her first love as a young teenager. The story is a flimsy construct but it's well supported by Tyler's appealing, open performance, some sharp playing from Jeremy Irons, Donal McCann and Sinead Cusack, and Darius Khondji's supple, deep focus photography. Bertolucci relies a little heavily on music cues to telegraph emotions but he's in full control of this subtle tale, which proceeds in a languorous daze to a tender and touching close. There are those who still bemoan the director's forsaking of political themse to concentrate wholly on the personal, but the film-making skill and the understanding of the human heart apparent in such films as The Spider's Stratagem and The Conformist are still very much in evidence here. It may focus on the soul rather than the state, but Stealing Beauty feels just as important as anything Bertolucci has made in the past. Great Film! Great film! Reasons: 1. Lush sceneries of the Italian countryside. 2. The very beautiful, talented and always watchable Liv Tyler. 3. Great supporting cast (eg. Rachel Weizz, Jeremy Irons, D.W.Moffet, and the many talented Italian actors) 4. Wonderful storyline and script. 5. Excellent photographic skills. Watching the movie is like being in a beautiful dream where you don't ever want to wake up. .. and more! I highly recommend this video to anyone who loves beautifully-made movies with thought-provoking storylines. The movie's set in the 1970s. After her mother passes away, Liv Tyler's character (Lucy Harmon) goes back to Italy (where she first visited 4 years ago) to solve the mystery of who her real father is (all she has for clue is a mysterious poem written by her mother when she was still alive). Lucy also desperately wants to fall in love and "give herself" to a deserving man. There're several guys vying for her attention. But who wins her heart in the end? Nicolo? Oswaldo? Christopher? A drunk guy she met at a party? Watch the movie to find out.. but I'll just like to add that in the end, Lucy made a wise and excellent choice and I just love her for it! Good movie but needs subtitles in parts I really like this movie. The scenery is beautiful and the movie's focus on the interactions between a variety of characters in the Italian countryside is interesting. I would rate it higher except for one thing- quite a bit of the movie is in Italian and there are no subtitles for this dialogue. This really doesn't make sense, especially considering the vhs copy that I use to own did have them. The parts in Italian aren't just snippets of dialogue either- some are entire conversations. If you've seen this many times with subtitles (and know what they're saying in Italian) I would definitely buy it. If not, it's still a good purchase but be aware that you're missing quite a bit of the movie. Buy Stealing Beauty at Amazon.com Buy posters at Allposters.com Jamster - the latest ringtones for your phone!  Search with Walhello on the Internet on Stealing Beauty Search with the Priority Search Engine on Stealing Beauty This page in other languages: Suomeksi | Nederlands | Deutsch
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