Average Rating: 6/10
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This beautiful if ponderous soufflé of a film from director Bernardo Bertolucci serves more as an Italian travelogue than a drama. Liv Tyler stars as Lucy Harmon, an American teenager arriving in the lush Tuscan countryside to visit family friends residing there. Lucy visited four years earlier and exchanged a kiss with a handsome boy with whom she hopes to become reacquainted. Lucy's mother has committed suicide since then, and the teenager also hopes to discover the identity of her father,
Jun 14, 1996 Wide
Jan 8, 2002
Fox Searchlight Pictures
All Critics (51) | Top Critics (13) | Fresh (26) | Rotten (22) | DVD (9)
[A] hilariously inscrutable exercise in pseudo-profundity.
A civilized, mellow, and generally graceful chamber piece.
[Bertolucci] builds an homage to beauty around a sullen void.
In contrasting the sexuality and rebellion of Lucy's generation with his own, Bertolucci clearly yearns to rekindle his creative spirit.
Even a lesser Bertolucci is an event, and Stealing Beauty has its charms.
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.
Meditation on sex, life, death; older teens only.
Elaborately awful.
I find it to be one of his most sublime achievements, filled with a sunny laziness and slow awakening.
A welcome reminder of Bertolucci's directorial assurance.
Liv Tyler is radiant, but the film itself suffers from the same self-indulgence that always hampers Bertolucci's work.
The script is in keeping with the fabric of the film. It's languid and meanders about a bit, but, coupled with the lush and inviting Tuscany countryside, this is not a bad thing at all.
Gorgeous Tuscan scenery and a breakthrough performance by Liv Tyler help make this sudsy flick entertaining.
Auteur-slumming at The WB
Interesting, but not much.
January 16, 2008
Super Reviewer
Liv Tyler plays Lucy who arrives in Tuscany to meet family, be sculpted, find out who her father is and to lose her virginity. Liv is quite beautiful as is the Italian countryside, and coming of age stories are always fun, but this movie is tastefully done.
October 27, 2008Super Reviewer
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