| | | The most beautiful place to be is in love.
Features: DVD
19-year old Lucy (Liv Tyler) travels to the lush countryside of Tuscany to spend the summer with family friends. Driven by two motives: the first to renew her acquaintance with the handsome young boy from a neighboring family with whom she had shared her first kiss, and the second, to solve the mystery left in a diary written by her mother, Sara, a respected poet and model. Sara, who was a free spirit eager for experience but shy of responsibility, has left Lucy clues that lead her to believe that the answer to the mystery might be found amidst the splendor of the olive groves that punctuate the Italian landscape. While Lucy pursues her young love, the other members of the household find themselves intoxicated by her freshness. Her presence has a profound effect on the jaded emotions of her hosts and their house guests--her innocence stirs up a whirlwind of sensuality reminding them of the exquisite pains and pleasures that only youth can enjoy.
"...charming, contemporary story. Tyler is a star in the making..." Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide
"...stylish, sensual motion picture..." James Berardinelli's ReelViews
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 | | Single Side - Dual Layer | | Anamorphic Widescreen - 2.35 | | Letterbox - 1.85 | | Audio:
| Dolby Digital 5.1 - English | | Additional Release Material:
| Featurette | | Trailers:
| 1. International Trailer | | 2. TV Spot (3) | | 3. Previews - Fox Flix |
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| Technical Info
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Release Information
|  | Studio: Foxvideo |
| Release Date: 1/9/2007 |
| Running Time: 119 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1996 | | Catalog ID: 2002833 | | UPC: 00024543028338 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: Italian | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English, Italian | | Available Subtitles: English | | Video: Color |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Cannes Film Festival (1996) | | | Bernardo Bertolucci, Nominee, Golden Palm |
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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 The New York Times 7 of 10
...Bertolucci has not lost his extraordinary visual edge. This film maker's supremely tactile, sensual style and his taste for exoticism are captivatingly on display... Intense and alluring, Bertolucci's powers of seduction remain formidable... - Janet Maslin
Rolling Stone 8 of 10
Liv Tyler gives a luminous performance... Bertolucci turns Stealing Beauty...into an intimate mediation on sex, art and leaving home. - Peter Travers
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