Stealing Beauty [DVD]

This is a film any Italian countryside lovers will be crazy for. Liv Tyler is gorgeous as the central figure who commands this film about a young woman’s search for her real father, and the man who will take her virginity, while visiting the Italian estate of her late mother’s friends. So beautifully filmed; the photography is to die for. Get your bowl of ice cream and sit for a masterpiece!

I used to watch this movie over and over when I was a teenager. I watched it again now when I am in my late twenties. Something doesn't change. The music, casting and the beautiful Tuscan sun contribute to a memorizing poem-like film. I get lost in it all the time. The movie is like an old wine. The more you taste, the longer you let it sit, the better it tastes. That nice after-taste is just right. I would keep watching this over and over again.

Rented this at the recommend of a friend, but i found it was slow mvoing and quite boring.

Nice coming-of-age story. Impressive actors in main roles. Beautiful scenery and art work. Excellent sound track. Delicious scenes of food and eating.

One of the best movies of all time! Bertolucci captures it all: everything is well-rounded, every intimate moment realistically captured, the scenes, the emotion, the beauty and the avant guarde. This is avant-Guarde cinema at its best, it doesn't isolate the viewer, but wholeheartedly brings them into a brave new beautiful world. Lucy is leisurely looking for her father, life and love in an isolated arts commune in Italy. You will forget where you are and how you think you should be living after seeing such free and open beauty of people and interchanging lives. Gorgeous!

Something to watch if you are bored and wanted aesthetically pleasing scenes of Italy and Liv Tyler. The movie seems very shallow with a bunch of hippy artist characters living at a villa doing eccentric things. The movie gives you no reason to care about them at all or their strange problems. Instead it takes you on a journey with the main character (lucy) played by Liv Tyler who searches for her father. However, I forgot all about that because the plot seems to deviate from her goal into her trying to lose her virginity to potential guys she sees around villa. That's really the only part that makes any sense in the film because everything else is so random and pointless. Its like being on a family vacation and all you want to do is go home or stay in your room. Its a very pretty film, but beyond that nothing special.

I watched this video several years ago and recently saw that it could be watched on a smart TV. I expect that it would be available for only a limited time so I decided to buy it and add it to my library.

This may not appeal to the US market, a slightly slow film but beautifully cast and photographed. Liv Tyler reaches peaks she has not had the script or direction to reach since, Jeremy Irons plays his best role for years and the rest of the ensemble, largely-British cast (including a very young Joseph Fiennes) also excels in roles where what is not said is sometimes more important than the dialogue. And the soundtrack is fantastic. I'm delighted this is coming out on DVD: it's a thoughtful and thought-provoking film - buy it if you've ever read and enjoyed a book (don't buy it if the book was one you had to colour-in).

Most of the info about the movie can be found on Wikipedia. I personally like this movie, as it is at the same time slow, but dynamic, a bit vulgar and at the same time smooth, etc. Good soundtrack, too.

This is a love story, set in a Scillian/Italian vine yard, the setting is beautiful, the story is engaging, BUT this is Liv Tyler at her very best, sweet, beautiful & oh so innocent. For ALL Liv fans this a must own flick!! If you haven't seen this, you haven't Liv'd (hahaha). Buy it while you can, I've waited years for this to be released on DVD! There is a God...

It's a cult movie and very nice affresco of the british community in Tuscany! If you are very taken by the english culture that's something should see!

Liz Phairの『Rocket Boy』が流れるオープニングから主人公と共にトスカーナへの旅が始まります。巨匠ベルナルド・ベルトリッチが生み出す自然なカメラワークによって、我々も一緒にトスカーナの大地を踏んでいるかの様な錯覚に陥ります。 主人公Lucyの目線で展開していくストーリーはスピードが程好いので、時間の経過に臨場感があります。また、映画にツキモノの背景説明シーンも決して説明的でなく、あくまで自然な流れの中で進んでいくので、途中で夢から覚めてしまうような事はありません。 イタリアの片田舎での思い出はきっと素晴らしいものになるでしょう。

Muy bien