This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

it is the rare 'crazy' movie that actually has something to say.

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

This is my favorite movie ever!!! Liv Tyler, Jeremy Irons, and the rest of the cast are excellent in this movie. The Tuscan scenery is gorgeous. It makes you wish you were there. I loved the story. The more you watch it the more you love it because you appreciate the surroundings, the music, the beautiful story. The only thing I had a hard time with was the beginning and how it related to the rest of the story. Also, I am usually not a fan of soundtracks, but the Stealing Beauty soundtrack is perfect!!!. I love the eclectic mix of music. The movie and the soundtrack deserve recognition. I can't believe how many people have not heard of this movie.

Lucy (played by Liv Tyler) is a 19 American girl which travels to Italy after her mother die. She's coming back to a farmhouse where her mother lived once. It's not the first time she's going there, she had been there four years earlier, so she knows almost everyone in the house. She's young, she's beautiful, she's very attractive, but she's also very innocent and… virgin. Every man in the house, from the older to younger, feel her presence and enjoy it, on one or another way, because she's everything but invisible. Her presence is really noticed, but she's not provocative at all. In fact she's very calm and shy. The entire plot is about her, her feelings, people which surround her, and the way she's growing as a woman. It's all that together what makes this movie so beautiful and intimate, because it's a portrait of the fears and hopes, disillusions and happiness, joy and anger of a teenage girl which is having some "feelings" for the very first time.I enjoyed the story but also the settings used, because it's all so peaceful and calm, it's all so quiet in that lost place somewhere in Italy… The cinematography is beautiful and has this "special touch" European cinema use to have, with those little details which turn the movie so truthful and realistic. I like it a lot! About the acting I must say I enjoyed especially two characters and the respective actors who played them. They were the character "Lucy", played by Liv Taylor and "Alex", played by Jeremy Irons. It's especially those two characters which make this story so beautiful to me.To sum up, it's a simple but wonderful movie and another excellent work by Bernardo Bertolucci.

Liv Tyler's (Armageddon, LOTR trilogy) mother has just committed suicide and she goes to Tuyscany to visit her mother's friends in a coming-of-age adventure. Director Bernardo Bertolucci (The Last Emporer) strive to bring out in Tyler what is probably her best screen performance.This was Joseph Fiennes' (Shakespher in Love) first film role, and one of the first for Rachel Weisz (The Constant Gardener, The Mummy).With a great performance by Jeremy Irons (Elizabeth I, Reversal of Fortune), this film is a story about life and death and the search for who you are. It is character focused. Some of the best parts are gatherings where you just watch the characters interact.A good European film for those looking for quality, not action.

I had the opportunity to watch this movie twice in a single day - first in the morning, and then, unexpectedly, again - in the evening.Maybe it was my destiny.. Just maybe...So at first, I gave it a "9" because I thought there were some minor plot weaknesses.But when I saw it again, everything just worked...This isn't a movie that you watch once and you say "Oh yeah!" It just requires more attention. You have to think harder and, something more - you have to feel harder...As with every great work of art, you have to experience it several times, in order to actually get into it...And when you do, you could find anything in it...In time, I'll watch it again, and I hope I can learn something from a true cinema virtuoso.Watch it more than once - 10/10.