1996 · drama · romance · italian
Stealing Beauty
Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci1h 56m1996
Lucy Harmon, an American teenager is arriving in the lush Tuscan countryside to be sculpted by a family friend who lives in a beautiful villa. Lucy visited there four years earlier and exchanged a kiss with an Italian boy with whom she hopes to become reacquainted.
Our read: Stealing Beauty (1996) reads as a neutral, measured, grounded drama · romance · italian entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, measured, measured drama / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- measured
- intimate
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“You want sun-drowsy Tuscan coming-of-age soaked in art, desire, and mortality.”
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