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Editor's Note
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 (who turns out to be a jerk) 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 in Tuscany, which provides a gorgeous setting for the gifted ensemble to play out their intrigues.
Plot Summary
After four years, Lucy Harmon (Liv Tyler) returns to the artist's colony in Tuscany where her recently deceased mother was once the resident poet. Lucy is now a beautiful young woman, and although she has returned to learn more about the past (and find love as well), she does not anticipate the revelations and relationships that await her in the pastoral paradise. Jeremy Irons is memorable as the dying writer who takes an interest in Lucy.
| Features | Region 1 | | Keep Case - Sensormatic | | Single Side - Dual Layer | | Anamorphic Widescreen - 2.35 | | Full Frame - 1.33 | | Audio:
| Dolby Digital 5.1 - English, Italian | | Additional Release Material:
| Featurette | | Trailers:
| 1. International Trailer | | 2. TV Spot (3) | | 3. Previews - Fox Flix |
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Release Information
|  | Studio: Fox Home Entertainment |
| Release Date: 4/15/2008 |
| Original Release Date: 1996 | | Catalog ID: 2002834 | | UPC: 00024543028345 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: Italian | | Available Audio Tracks: English, Italian | | Video: Color |
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| | Professional Reviews | Premiere
"...A sensuous love poem to the Italian countryside..." 12/01/1996 p.114Rolling Stone
"...Liv Tyler gives a luminous performance in STEALING BEAUTY..." 06/27/1996 p.63 USA Today
"...A pastoral treat....It's enough of a vacation itself to inspire a return visit..." -- 3 1/2 out of 4 stars 06/14/1996 p.4D Entertainment Weekly
"...[A] shrewdly coy, hot little idyll....A great date movie..." -- Rating: B 06/14/1996 p.43 Variety
"...An exotic epic trilogy....A richly satisfying chamber piece that is both literary and utterly contemporary..." 04/01/1996 |
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