Stealing Beauty
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| Directed by | Bernardo Bertolucci |
| Produced by | Jeremy Thomas |
| Screenplay by | Susan Minot |
| Story by | Bernardo Bertolucci |
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| Music by | Richard Hartley |
| Cinematography | Darius Khondji |
| Edited by | Pietro Scalia |
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| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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113 minutes 119 minutes (DVD) |
| Country | France, Italy, United Kingdom, United States |
| Language | English, French, Italian, Spanish, German |
| Box office | $4.7 million |
Stealing Beauty (French: Beauté volée; Italian: Io ballo da sola) is a 1996 British-Italian-American drama film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci and starring Liv Tyler, Joseph Fiennes, Jeremy Irons, Sinéad Cusack, and Rachel Weisz. Written by Bertolucci and Susan Minot, the film is about an American teenaged girl who travels to a lush Tuscan villa near Siena to stay with family friends of her poet mother, who recently died. The film was actress Liv Tyler's 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 Harmon, a nineteen-year-old American, is the daughter of well-known (now deceased) poet and model, Sara Harmon. The film opens as Lucy arrives for a vacation at the Tuscan villa of Sara's old friends, Ian and Diana Grayson (played by Donal McCann and Cusack, respectively). Other guests include a prominent New York art gallery owner, an Italian advice columnist and an English writer, Alex Parrish (Irons), who is dying of an unspecified disease. Diana's daughter from a previous marriage, Miranda Fox (Weisz), is also there with her boyfriend, entertainment lawyer Richard Reed (D. W. Moffett). Miranda's brother, Christopher (Fiennes), is supposed to be there, but he is off on a road trip with the Italian son of a neighboring villa, Niccoló Donati (Roberto Zibetti). Lucy was particularly excited to see Niccoló, whom she had met on a previous visit to the villa, four years earlier, and who was the first boy she'd ever kissed. Lucy and Niccoló had briefly exchanged letters after this first visit. One letter in particular Lucy had admired so much she memorized it.
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