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Beauty wounds the heart!
Asertive statement pronounced by Guillaume (Jean Marais, the unforgettable Jean Cocteau Orpheus) just in the minute 75 of the film.
Since a nineteen years old, the lovely and ultra beautiful Liv Tyler decides to visit Tuscana, she will experiment the gradual transformation from her ancient crysallis to become in a real mature woman through those impresive months. She will exchange important encounters with a true caleidoscope of human beings. The art remains and even matchs with the sumptuous landscapes as the huge frame in which the seduction, the pleasure of the good food, the art, the ancient memories in search her dark mother past and her early childhood will lead her to a real grow up process. All the cast is exceptional, but the speciañ touching acting of Jeremy Irons one of the major actors all over the world plus the admirable directorial work of Bertolucci and his overwhelming employement use of the lenses will astonish you from the start shot of the picture. So considering the sum of all those merits I would say it is imposibble to pretend ignore and least to avoid to fall in love with this supreme artwork.
To my mind one of the best twelve films of 1996.

intimate drama
Liv Tyler vividly conveys Lucy's ambivalent feelings about sex and the different ways she tries to negotiate the uneasiness (or intrigue) of her elders in the presence of such youthful innocence. Stealing Beauty demonstrates that Bernardo Bertolucci is as adept at intimate drama as he is with epic productions.

This is also a movie for every girl who wished losing her virginity had been more pleasant.

Say under a tree on a hilltop in Tuscany with a gentle, compassionate boy after spending a week at a vineyard having probing and interesting conversations with a dozen artists and writers.


oh dear oh dear!
Could have been a good and profound film but alas no.
The scenery is certainly stunning and one could spend the whole film wishing one was in the location, just as well really given their is no plot to entertain you. The film labours under the misguided aprehension of being a modern telling of the muse story and the woeful, scarred muse with a deep dark secret at that. The problem is Tyler does not have the requisite skill or understanding to carry off such a role, so she appears to be rather wet and misplaced. Amongst the rest of the cast are some heavy weight performers but they are not used properly and no one reeks of artisitc flair or ambition, they all come across rather as bitchy and perverse and the kind of people a good hard day's work wouldn't sort out (not to mention a slap around the face or two!)
The only thing I got from the film was desire to visit the location and a stronger desire to avoid arty, ex pat types when I got there! Photographically beautiful, otherwise very tedious and extremely irritating!

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