Stealing Beauty

Stealing Beauty is a 1996 Italian/French/British film written and directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. It stars Joseph Fiennes, Jeremy Irons, and Liv Tyler.

Plot summary

For 20 years many visitors have come to a villa on an Italian hilltop owned by an English poet. Lucy Harmon, a 19-year-old American, was last there four years ago and wants to meet up again with Nicolo Donati, 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 her father is the Italian war correspondent who wrote to her mother for twenty years. Then again her father 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, the daughter of that wife and the daughter's American lover are most intrigued by Lucy's virginity.

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