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Stealing Beauty

Stealing Beauty (Io ballo da sola)

1996

Bernardo Bertolucci

Liv Tyler, Jeremy Irons, Sinead Cusack, Carlo Cecchi ...

6.0

6,543

Drama. Romance Liv Tyler stars as a 19-year-old American who goes to visit an artist's villa in Italy -the Toscana- where, perhaps, she will find out who her father was, and lose her virginity. Jeremy Irons is a dying playwright.

	Author	Review
United States	Janet Maslin The New York Times	"Intense and alluring, Mr. Bertolucci's powers of seduction remain formidable -- even when seduction is all he has in mind"	POS
United States	Hal Hinson The Washington Post	"Bertolucci's voice is stronger, clearer and more effortlessly confident than it has been in years. He's stolen the beauty of Tuscany and his youthful star and transformed it into an exquisite work of movie art."	POS
United States	Mick LaSalle SFGATE	"'Stealing Beauty' maintains interest beyond the absurdity of Tyler's presence"	NEU
United States	Desson Thomson The Washington Post	"[A] hilariously inscrutable exercise in pseudo-profundity."	NEG
United States	Ken Tucker Entertainment Weekly	"First Tango in Tuscany — er, Stealing Beauty — is as slim as Tyler’s hips, but it’s a great date movie."	NEU
United States	David Rooney Variety	"A richly satisfying chamber piece that is both literary and utterly contemporary."	POS
United States	Jack Mathews Los Angeles Times	"The script suffers from the same tired blood as his characters, and his direction is often ponderously self-conscious."	NEG

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