Stealing Beauty

Stealing Beauty French Beaut vole Italian Io ballo da sola is a 1996 drama film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci and starring Liv Tyler, Joseph Fiennes, Jeremy Irons, Sinad Cusack, and Rachel Weisz. Written by Bertolucci and Susan Minot, the film is about an American teenage girl who travels to a lush Tuscan villa near Siena to stay with family friends of her poet mother who recently committed suicide. The film was actress Liv Tylers first leading film role. Stealing Beauty premiered in Italy in March 1996, and was officially selected for the 1996 Cannes Film Festival in France in May. It was released in the United States on June 14, 1996.

Lucy yearns to lose her virginity and becomes an object of intense interest to the men of the household, but the suitor she finally selects is not the initial object of her affection. After Alex is brought into hospital presumably going there to die Lucy loses her virginity in the farm fields outside the villa.The critical reception for the film was mixed, with some critics praising the Italian setting and the slow pace, while others criticised it for its apparent selfindulgence, and lack of character development and drama. ........

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