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Stealing Beauty

1996 · 116 min

A languid, sun-drenched summer idyll that lingers on sensual details and quiet emotional discoveries.

Genres
Drama, Romance
Tagline
The most beautiful place to be is in love.
Overview
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.

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Tone
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • romanticstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • coming-of-age
  • identity
  • grief
  • love
  • family
Places
  • countryside
  • single country house
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex strong
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour4
Realism8
Romance7
Tension3
Darkness3
Complexity5
Emotional weight6

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Genres
drama, romance
Directed by
Bernardo Bertolucci
Written by
Susan Minot
Starring
Liv Tyler, Sinéad Cusack, Jeremy Irons, Jason Flemyng, Joseph Fiennes, Carlo Cecchi, Donal McCann, Jean Marais
Music
Richard Hartley
Cinematography
Darius Khondji
Runtime
116 min
Country
Italy, United Kingdom, France, United States of America
Languages
English, French, Italian, Spanish, German

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