Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
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Carlo Cecchi | ... | Carlo Lisca |
Sinéad Cusack | ... | Diana (as Sinead Cusack) | |
Joseph Fiennes | ... | Christopher | |
Jason Flemyng | ... | Gregory | |
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Anna Maria Gherardi | ... | Chiarella Donati |
Jeremy Irons | ... | Alex | |
Jean Marais | ... | M. Guillaume | |
Donal McCann | ... | Ian | |
D.W. Moffett | ... | Richard | |
Ignazio Oliva | ... | Osvaldo Donati | |
Stefania Sandrelli | ... | Noemi | |
Francesco Siciliano | ... | Michele Lisca | |
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Mary Jo Sorgani | ... | Maria |
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Leonardo Treviglio | ... | Lieutenant |
Liv Tyler | ... | Lucy Harmon |
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. Written by Dale O'Connor <daleoc@interaccess.com>
This is my favorite film. I first saw it in 1996 at the age of 16, and have been relentlessly teased ever since for enjoying it as much as I do. True film buffs, I am told, walked out on this one. I insist though that I don't have bad taste; the film simply struck a chord in me early on, and yes, it was probably because its was such a pretty film. Beauty can be quite a hook. Since then I have watched Stealing Beauty no less than a hundred times, studied Bertolucci's other films, and - of course - listened to the soundtrack, and the Mozart Concerti, so much that I have been known to hum them in my sleep. Now, I know why I love it so much. Every time I watch Stealing Beauty, there is more to discover. The premise - looking for her father/true love - and the apparent conclusion seem no more than a frame work for a hundred different leitmotifs that Bertolucci seems strangely familiar with, fascinated by, and adept at expressing in all of his films.