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Stealing Beauty

Stealing Beauty

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Rating: 1 stars
Summary: mystery.
Review: I normally like very much Bertolucci films. So I saw this film with great expectations. Sure, Liv Tyler is pretty and Jeremy Irons is attractive even if he was dying (in the story, of course). Some of us would like to see more than Tyler, however. I guess that I did not understand what was so particular about the theme or the synopsis. Even the gorgeous Tuscany looked a bit artificial in this artists' village. So were the personalities in the villege. What was this all about? was all I could say after seeing it.

Rating: 1 stars
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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Magnificent film in the European style
Review: Setting .... Liv .... Characterizations .... Liv .... Convergent Plots ... Liv. Bellissimo. A very stylistic and charming film about a girl on the verge of becoming a woman. In the European tradition, the plots are many, intertwined and finish with human secrets which settle like a fine wine on a sunny Tuscany day.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Beautiful = )
Review: I viewed this movie ages ago, and saw it again recently : It still captures so much beauty. I think that Jeremy Irons is wonderful, and the Tuscan scenery : lavish. A beautiful, fun, most highly recommended film.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: now
Review: take me liv!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: A film that stirs the soul
Review: Stealing Beauty is one of those rare films that transports and transforms you. After watching this film, I wanted to board myself and all of friends on a plane and start an artist commune in Italy. It is a beautiful look at one young woman's life and emerging sexuality (and sensuality!)

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A must see movie for the young poets & lovers out there!
Review: Liv tyler is amazing! She has perfectly portrayed her character! Plus the GREAT performance of Jeremy Irons as an old playwright dying of AIDS. Her awakening of how sexuality affects every human being where ever you are is quite an inspiring touch to the human soul. A recommenadable film indeed!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Nice voyage of sex, italy and youthful innocence
Review: Bertulloci manages to make a nice - though not majestic - tale of a young woman's quest to loose her innocence and enter the questionable stages of adulthood.

Liv Tyler is very good as the young woman who is longing to be a virgin no more in the land of Italy. While in Italy, this young woman manages to find out some things about men(many are not as nice as they seem), her deceased mother(who stayed in Italy)and a middle-aged man dying of AIDS(Jeremy Irons, whose performance is solid as usual). Also relavent is her new knowledge of her Italian family, whose personal sex lives are put up close and personal by the highly erotic director.

A strange fact of this movie is that - to my knowledge - there is virtually little or anything about politics in this movie. It is solely about innocence in youth and sexual frustration. What a change for the famed left wing director!

For those who want a simple story about sex, innocence and the beautey of italy, I would highly recommend this tale.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Incredible soundtrack too!
Review: Also from the viewer AND LISTENER in California: the soundtrack from this movie is worth investing in too! Takes you there. . .over and over and over. :->

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Good movie but needs subtitles in parts
Review: I really like this movie. The scenery is beautiful and the movie's focus on the interactions between a variety of characters in the Italian countryside is interesting. I would rate it higher except for one thing- quite a bit of the movie is in Italian and there are no subtitles for this dialogue. This really doesn't make sense, especially considering the vhs copy that I use to own did have them. The parts in Italian aren't just snippets of dialogue either- some are entire conversations. If you've seen this many times with subtitles (and know what they're saying in Italian) I would definitely buy it. If not, it's still a good purchase but be aware that you're missing quite a bit of the movie.


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