Stealing Beauty

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Stealing Beauty

R,

1996,

1h 53m,

Drama

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49%

47 Reviews

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75%

10,000+ Ratings

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75%

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When she was 15, pretty but callow Lucy Harmon (Liv Tyler) visited the Tuscan town where her mother once enchanted the local male population. Four years later, in the wake of her mother's suicide, Lucy returns to the village. She plans to write some poetry, learn more about her family history and reunite with a boy she once kissed. Surveying an expansive field of suitors, Lucy finds herself taken with unattainable Alex (Jeremy Irons), as her journey imparts some unexpected lessons about love.

Peter Rainer

Los Angeles Magazine

Aug 9, 2022

Stealing Beauty would be an odd elixir coming from most directors; from Bernardo Bertolucci, it’s almost perverse. And yet it’s consistent with the central nostalgia in his movies.

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Joe Morgenstern

Wall Street Journal

Dec 12, 2018

Very pretty, and very creepy.

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Anne Billson

Daily Telegraph (UK)

Nov 22, 2017

Is there not something a little disturbing about the way in which ageing male film-makers are applauded for their ogling of actresses young enough to be their granddaughters?

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Michael Atkinson

Spin

Oct 25, 2019

Bertolucci's florid, rather sophomoric notions of decadent eroticism and parabohemian lifestyles are delivered in elliptical, inconclusive fiction-workshop parcels.

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Joyce Slaton

Common Sense Media

Jan 2, 2011

4/5

Meditation on sex, life, death; older teens only.

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Hermione S

Dec 15, 2018

o contraste da sexualidade e rebeliÃ£o da geraÃ§Ã£o de Lucy com a sua, numa meditaÃ§Ã£o sobre sexo, vida, morte numa grande riqueza de detalhes, transmitida por um elenco maravilhoso.

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Harry W

Oct 5, 2018

Always meant to watch this & I finally got the opportunity to... & to be quite honest... I rather enjoyed it... Jeremy Irons is normally strong in anything he performs in & Tyler was quite good as well.

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Anakin M

Sep 7, 2017

This whole movie had one giantly perverted ick factor throughout. The male characters were one dimensional and just, ugh, gross. The film had a sickly guessing game of who's hand was going to forcefully make its way up Lucy's skirt first.

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Poe R

Jan 31, 2008

"How to watch Bertolucci", for Americans by the master of symbolism himself.

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When she was 15, pretty but callow Lucy Harmon (Liv Tyler) visited the Tuscan town where her mother once enchanted the local male population. Four years later, in the wake of her mother's suicide, Lucy returns to the village. She plans to write some poetry, learn more about her family history and reunite with a boy she once kissed. Surveying an expansive field of suitors, Lucy finds herself taken with unattainable Alex (Jeremy Irons), as her journey imparts some unexpected lessons about love.

Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Producer: Jeremy Thomas
Screenwriter: Bernardo Bertolucci, Susan Minot
Distributor: Fox
Production Co: UGC Images, Recorded Picture Company (RPC), Fox Searchlight
Rating: R
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jun 14, 1996, Original
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 1, 2013
Box Office (Gross USA): $4.6M
Runtime: 1h 53m
Sound Mix: Surround, Stereo

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