Stealing Beauty (1996)
Release Year: 1996
Nation: France, United Kingdom, United States of America
Alternative Title: Beleza Roubada, Belleza robada, Ускользающая красота, Çalinmis güzellik, Beauté volée, Dancing by Myself, Forførende skønhed, Gefühl und Verführung, Io ballo da sola, Klemmeni omorfia, Koskematon kauneus, Laga'at B'Yofee, Lopott szépség, Plesem sama, Stulen skönhet, Ukradena lepota, Ukryte pragnienia
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Writer: Bernardo Bertolucci, Susan Minot
Production & Genre
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Companies: Fox Searchlight Pictures, Recorded Picture Company, UGC
Genre: Coming-Of-Age Fiction, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Romance Film
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Keywords
Keywords: adultery, artist, coming of age, diary, father daughter relationship, feelings, first love, friendship, italy, joy of life, kissing, loss of mother, poem, romance, rural, sculptor, sexual awakening, summer, terminal disease, tuscany, italy, virgin
Story
Lucy Harmon, a 19-year-old American girl, arrives in Tuscany to stay with her family's friend, an English artist living in a villa. Four years prior, Lucy had kissed an Italian boy while visiting and has been corresponding with him since. She hopes to rekindle their relationship during this visit. Lucy brings with her her late mother's diary containing poems that suggest Lucy was conceived on the hilltop where the villa resides. Lucy is determined to find out who her father is, with three potential candidates being the Italian war correspondent she once kissed, an English playwright in residence who is dying from a terminal disease, or the artist who uses chainsaws for his sculptures. The artist's family and their American lover are unaware of Lucy's quest but are intrigued by her virginity.
Summary
Stealing Beauty (1996), directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, is a coming-of-age drama set in the rural Tuscan countryside. The story follows Lucy Harmon, an American teenager who visits the villa of an English artist to be sculpted and hopes to reunite with an Italian boy she kissed four years ago. The film explores themes of sexual awakening, first love, loss of motherhood, and self-discovery, all within a beautiful rural Italian setting.
