Stealing Beauty (1996)


Sinead Cusack           Diana Grayson
Jeremy Irons            Alex Parrish
Jean Marais             Monsieur Guillaume
Donal McCann            Ian Grayson
D.W. Moffett            Richard Reed
Stefania Sandrelli      Noemi
Rachel Weisz            Miranda Fox
Liv Tyler               Lucy Harmon
Carlo Cecchi            Carlo Lisca
Joseph Fiennes          Christopher Fox
Jason Flemyng           Gregory
Anna Maria Gherardi     Chiarella Donati
Ignazio Oliva           Osvaldo Donati
Francesco Siciliano     Michele Lisca
Mary Jo Sorgani         Maria
Leonardo Treviglio (II) Lieutenant
Rebecca Valpy           Daisy Grayson
Alessandra Vanzi        Marta
Roberto Zibetti         Nicolo Donati

Directed by:            Bernardo Bertolucci
Produced by:            Mario Cotone, Yves Attal (II), Jeremy Thomas


A 19-year old American girl, Lucy travels to the lush countryside of Tuscany to spend the summer with 
family friends. She has two motives. The first is to renew her acquaintance with the handsome young boy 
from a neighboring family with whom she had shared her first kiss on a visit four years earlier. The 
memory of that kiss continues to haunt her long after his passionate letters to America stopped arriving. 
And the second is to solve the riddle left in a diary written by her mother, Sara, a respected poet and 
model. Sara, who was a free spirit eager for experience, but shy of responsibility, has left Lucy clues 
that lead her to believe that the answer to the mystery might very well be found amidst the splendor of 
the olive groves that punctuate the Italian landscape.

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After her mother commits suicide, nineteen year old Lucy Harmon travels to Italy to have her picture 
painted. However, she has other reasons for wanting to go. She wants to renew her acquaintance with 
Nicolo Donati, a young boy with whom she fell in love on her last visit four years ago. She also is 
trying tosolve the riddle left in a diary written by her dead mother, Sara.

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For 20 years many visitors have come to the villa on an Italian hilltop owned by an English artist. Lucy, 
a 19-year-old American, was last there four years ago and wants to meet up again with the young Italian 
who kissed her and corresponded for a while. And she has brought the diary of her late mother filled with 
enigmatic poems that suggest Lucy was conceived on that hilltop. Lucy wants to find out if Daddy is the 
Italian war correspondent who wrote to her mother for 20 years. Then again Daddy could be the dying English 
playwright in residence or the artist who uses a chainsaw on tree trunks for his sculptures. The three, of 
course, have no idea that Lucy is there to solve a mystery. They, the artist's wife, daughter of that wife 
and the daughter's American lover are most intrigued by Lucy's virginity. 

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Lucy Harmon is a 19-year old American girl who is the daughter of poet Sara Harmon. After Sara commits 
suicide, Lucy travels to Italty and visits her mother's friends, Diana and her husband, Irish artist Ian, 
where Lucy wants a picture of her painted. Lucy decided to return to Italy to reunite with Nicolo Donati, 
a Italian boy she once fell in love with four years ago, when she last visited Italy. But reuniting with 
Nicolo isn't the only reason why Lucy decided to return to Italy, Lucy is on a personal journey, as she 
sets out to solve a mystery in her Mother's diary and discover who her father is who conceived her 20 
years ago. Lucy's journey leads her to befriend Alex, a play-writer who is dying of cancer whom Lucy 
thinks may be her father or her father could be the artist who makes statutes from trees and sets out to 
loose her virginity as Diana and her daughter Miranda's boyfriend Richard become intrigued by her.