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Stealing Beauty (1996) Rank 2 Reviews
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Daily-Reviews (Marco Lanzagorta)
Los Angeles Times (Jack Mathews)
The script (written by Susan Minot from a story by Bertolucci) suffers from the same tired blood as his characters, and his direction is often ponderously self-conscious. ...read the complete Stealing Beauty movie review at Los Angeles Times (Jack Mathews)
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NandoNext (Heather Parsons)
Time (Richard Corliss)
In Susan Minot's goofy script, Tyler ministers to ailing writer Jeremy Irons and other artsy layabouts while searching for the man on whom to bestow her virginity. The climactic deflowering scene provides the only giggles in an otherwise stodgy mess. ...read the complete Stealing Beauty movie review at Time (Richard Corliss)
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Steve Rhodes
I will tell you a bit more of the story shortly, but let me stop right here and say the only reason to see this film is for its visual impact. The story itself is so insubstantial that if you think about it for a moment, it will disappear. Moreover, the ...read the complete Stealing Beauty movie review at Steve Rhodes
Scott Renshaw
Tyler's Lucy is traveling abroad for a couple of very distinct reasons, we learn. Returning to the estate of sculptor Ian Grayson (Donal McCann) and his wife Diana (Sinead Cusack), family friends with whom she had vacationed five years earlier, virginal ...read the complete Stealing Beauty movie review at Scott Renshaw
Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
This is one of several poems written by Lucy, the heroine of ``StealingBeauty,'' as she drifts through an endless house party in Tuscany. I quoteLucy's poetry because I want to set you a ...read the complete Stealing Beauty movie review at Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
San Francisco Chronicle (Mick LaSalle)
When Bertolucci points his camera out a window, it's like putting on your glasses. Everything is lush, drenched in color and right there for you to touch. ...read the complete Stealing Beauty movie review at San Francisco Chronicle (Mick LaSalle)
Cinematter (Matt Williams)
Beautifully shot, but rather pointless drama Liv Tyler stars as Lucy, a 19-year-old American who visits the Italian countryside with two things in mind. She searches for her real father, through clues her free spirited mother left in her poetry. She ...read the complete Stealing Beauty movie review at Cinematter (Matt Williams)
Detroit News (Susan Stark)
Palo Alto Weekly (Susan Tavernetti)
Washington Post (Desson Thomson)
For those who simply want to drink in the northern Italian countryside and Tyler's physical details, it's quite an experience. But as a story, Stealing Beauty (which Bertolucci wrote with Susan Minot) is a misbegotten, sentimental reunion with old ...read the complete Stealing Beauty movie review at Washington Post (Desson Thomson)
Dragan Antulov
Review written on September 12th 2003Dragan Antulov a.k.a. Draxhttp://film.purger.com Filmske recenzije na hrvatskom/Movie Reviews in Croatian========== XRAMRID: 35720 XLanguage: en XRTReviewID: 1197554 XRTTitleID: 1071703 XRTAuthorID: 1307 ...read the complete Stealing Beauty movie review at Dragan Antulov
filmcritic.com (Christopher Null)
Stealing Beauty is a bad movie. Bernardo Bertolucci, the Academy Award-winning director of 1987's The Last Emperor, is dead. He has been replaced with a hormonal and juvenile kid, masquerading as a filmmaker, desperately trying to appeal to a cerebral ...read the complete Stealing Beauty movie review at filmcritic.com (Christopher Null)
User Reviews
by Maurice Battisti on September 04, 2009
The story, TUSCANY, and the sculpture and the actors make this a great film, often neglected. Pour yourself a glass of wine and ...
by Angela S. on May 20, 2008
This is a beautiful film. It's a spot on treatment on how people, particularly men, interact with a virginal young beauty. The Italian countryside is so beautiful. The flow of the film is slow and dreamy. What I loved about the characters is that they ...
by Jenessa Butler on April 21, 2008
I saw this movie in the theater when it was released back in 1995, and it has stayed one of my favorites ever since. Yes, to some it may be a bit of a chick flick... but it is beautiful, sexy, and somehow completely sucks you into the characters world. ...
by Al Ferber on October 16, 2007
This movie is erotic in every way but more than that it appeals to all the senses. Tremendous acting, plausible story line, lush country side scenery, interesting insight into the lives and minds of real artists living the lives of real artists with all ...
by SusanSexEducator ... on August 07, 2007
I first saw this movie several years ago, and fell in love with it. The story is nice and entertaining, but it's the setting that truly captivates. A young Liv Tyler stars in this movie, and she goes to visit friends of her late mother in Italy. They ...
by David M. Churchil... on January 17, 2007
This is a GREAT movie! I LOVE the soundtrack! This movie is a fav of mine and got me into TripHop. ...
by R. C. Kopf "curti... on August 03, 2006
this is one of those rare movies that lives right at the edge of pretension and overambition but ...
by Alan Melia "revie... on October 10, 2005
I love this movie. The scenery around Tuscany is so beautiful to be almost magical. It compares to Capt Correl Mand in its cinematography. ...
by Hiram Gomez Pardo on May 06, 2005
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