Synopsis
Lucy Harmon, an American teenager is arriving in the lush Tuscan countryside to be sculpted by a family friend who lives in a beautiful villa. Lucy visited there four years earlier and exchanged a kiss with an Italian boy with whom she hopes to become reacquainted.
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Cast
- Liv TylerLucy Harmon
- Sinéad CusackDiana Grayson
- Jeremy IronsAlex Parrish
- Jason FlemyngGregory
- Joseph FiennesChristopher Fox
- Carlo CecchiCarlo Lisca
- Donal McCannIan Grayson
- Jean MaraisM. Guillaume
- Rachel WeiszMiranda Fox
- Anna Maria GherardiChiarella Donati
Recommendations
- 90
Washington Post
What's more, Bertolucci's voice is stronger, clearer and more effortlessly confident than it has been in years. He's stolen the beauty of Tuscany and his youthful star and transformed it into an exquisite work of movie art. - 80
Chicago Reader
Though the film tapers off a little toward the end, there's a climactic scene of recognition between the heroine and her father that was one of the most exquisite pieces of acting I'd seen in ages. - 75
Rolling Stone
In contrasting the sexuality and rebellion of Lucy's generation with his own, Bertolucci clearly yearns to rekindle his creative spirit. - 75
San Francisco Examiner
Tyler is a find for a director like Bertolucci. She is a blank slate of prettiness with her unadulterated, thoroughbred, long-limbed looks. - 70
The New York Times
This film maker's supremely tactile, sensual style and his taste for exoticism are captivatingly on display in Stealing Beauty, even if the film's philosophizing sometimes lacks the intellectual heft of a cotton puff. - 63
ReelViews
This film is aesthetically pleasing but not emotionally satisfying. It's occasionally erotic but rarely dynamic. - 50
Chicago Sun-Times
The movie plays like the kind of line a rich older guy would lay on a teenage model,suppressing his own intelligence and irony in order to spread out before her the wonderful world he would like to give her as a gift. - 50
Austin Chronicle
Bertolucci returns to his native Italian soil for the first time in 15 years, and the result is a gorgeous albeit fairly insubstantial homecoming.
