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Stealing Beauty [1996] [DVD]

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Actors: Jeremy Irons, Liv Tyler, Carlo Cecchi, Sin�ad Cusack, Joseph Fiennes
Directors: Bernardo Bertolucci
Writers: Bernardo Bertolucci, Susan Minot
Producers: Chris Auty, Jeremy Thomas, Yves Attal
Format: PAL
Language English, French, German, Italian, Spanish
Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
Number of discs: 1
Classification: 18
Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
DVD Release Date: 21 Jun 2004
Run Time: 113 minutes

Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (25 customer reviews)

ASIN: B000284916
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 8,742 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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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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When 19-year-old Lucy Harmon (Liv Tyler) arrives in Tuscany, wondering about her mother (a recent suicide) and still nursing a crush on Niccolo, the local playboy she met on a visit four years earlier, everyone sits up and takes notice--especially director Bernardo Bertolucci, who trains his camera on the ingenue with understandable enthusiasm. The Graysons, who own the artists' colony and villa where Lucy's mother once wrote poetry, take the young girl in, and their guests enjoy the infusion of youth. Perhaps most deeply affected is Alex Parrish (Jeremy Irons), a terminally ill writer who finds Lucy charming and vital. Before such attentions, Lucy's interest in Niccolo quickly fades, replaced by an unexpected mystery regarding the identity of her father and a possible new love. And in a further attempt to understand her mother, Lucy writes light little poems as well. (Bertolucci has her words appear on the screen as she scribbles.) In fact, everything seems light in lush and lovely Tuscany, which provides a gorgeous setting for the gifted ensemble to play out their intrigues.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Bertolucci light, 14 Nov 2003

By	R Jess "Raymond Jess" (Limerick, Ireland.) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Stealing Beauty [VHS] [1996] (VHS Tape)

Apparently this was quite a personal film for Bernardo Berolucci who returns to Italy after a 15 year absence. He wanted to view his country from an outsider's viewpoint and so we have a movie set in Italy with hardly any Italian actors. But this may also have been a necessity as 'Stealing Beauty' is the first movie he has made in his home country that doesn't deal directly with politics. The British artists isolation in the loft of the Tuscan mountains symbolises their distance from everyday Italian life.

For this new perspective Bertolucci reincarnates himself as a 19-year old American girl. Much of Lucy's poetry writing moments come from stories Berolucci's father (himself an accomplished poet in Italy) told him about his own past as a young poet. More reality rattled the film-making, as Liv Tyler herself found out when she was 9 that who she thought was her father was not her real father. The man behind the camera at the beginning of the movie who films Lucy on her way to Tuscany has an African braclet on his wrist. This is an indication that the man is in fact the Carlo Lisca character in the film, the war reporter who was one of the lovers of Lucy's mother.

It seems that the most helpful thing that people find with reviews of this film is whether or not certain actresses appear with their kit off. All I can say on that issue is that Rachel Weisz comes away with all the top honours with Liv Tyler an unimpressive second. Great soundtrack too!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Enigmatic truths, 21 Oct 2006

By	C. Johnston "Cypruscj" (Northern Ireland) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I first saw Stealing Beauty years ago when I was about 16 and was immediately drawn to its artistic qualities. I found myself identifying with Liv's character. The uncertainty of life no longer being a child with innocence, wanting to be 'a part' of that group ie. not a virgin. I find this movie really enigmatic every time I watch it, it expresses the feeling we all go through at some point, whether we like to admit it or not. Jeremy Irons is fantastic in this, always a brilliant actor, but here he offers the guidance that Liv's character needs, something i found necessary in my early adult life and in hindesight was a crucial part of my development of who I am today; having the guidance of someone older and wiser. This movie I feel will transport you in some manner; where is dependent on you as a person. The scenery and music is just simply sexy and unpretentious. Either way I feel this movie will make you think either about your life now or as a teenager. It is not a block buster, does not need a big cast, but the few key actors/actresses really bring to life the characters own issues with their lives and shows how we all question our own lives at some point. It shows how we all have idealisms and quite often we are let down we create a pedalstle too high, as liv's character seems to have done. To some this movie is almost healing and theraputic in an emotional sense. We have all been where Lucy has. To the cynics I say; Watch this film as if you were Lucy with an open mind.

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4.0 out of 5 stars A summer romance, 13 April 2005

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Although criticised as merely a film tribute by Bertolucci to the beauty of Liv Tyler, this is a really beautifully shot movie as a whole. The acting is superb in the main - especially Jeremy Irons, and the scenery and light of the Tuscan landscape are totally wonderful. You can practically feel the warmth of the sun, and smell the earth in the olive groves. Watch this on a quiet afternoon, with a glass of red wine, and start planning a holiday to Italy!

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