Stealing Beauty Streaming
Mardi, août 3rd, 2010 |
Stealing Beauty Streaming.
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This is an artistically well-done movie if there ever was one. In fact, I don’t think it would be going too far to call it Bernardo Bertolucci’s best movie.
The film centers around an American girl (Liv Tyler) who travels over to Italy to visit her relatives. While there, she gains the friendship of an older writer (Jeremy Irons) who is dying of cancer. Tyler exudes a youthful, natural and yet mysterious beauty which complements Irons’ masculine, distinguished screen-presence quite nicely. In many sequences, Tyler is photographed so elegantly that she appears to be a model for one of Boticelli’s paintings.
Juxtaposed with this bonding is the desire for Tyler’s character to lose her virginity. In this rite-of-passage, her dying friend becomes her mentor. They both want it to be “special,” but she is also tempted to just “do it” with the efficacy of becoming a complete woman.
As the cover of the DVD shows Liv Tyler nude, a lot of guys are probably wondering if this is a movie in which she actually bares anything. The answer is……yes! There are a few brief scenes in which she is topless. To my knowledge, this is the only film in which she appears nude.
Filmed on the sun-drenched verdant rolling green countryside of Italy, the movie is colorfully illustrated by vibrant contrasts of red and green. The cinematography goes a long way towards giving the story a distinctly Italian flavor.
So, if you’re Italian, like Italian stuff, enjoy aesthetically pleasing films, admire Jeremy Irons or have a crush on Liv Tyler, this movie is for you. If none of these things appeal to you, this probably is not a DVD for you.
The first time I watched this movie I was about seventeen. And from my considerably naïve 17 year old perspective this seemed like a deeply engaging, very interesting and ultimately romantic movie. Though I was not oblivious to the juxtaposition of things traditionally romanticized with less than romantic realities, I was largely distracted by Lucy’s own journey to give anything else much thought. It was likely the first time that I saw a well developed character like Lucy who wasn’t the confident bubblegum type of romantic heroine that I was accustomed to seeing. Perhaps that says more about the movies I was watching at the time than anything else, but Lucy’s imperfections and awkwardness resonated with me and “Stealing Beauty very quickly became one of my favourite movies.
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Last Sunday, almost ten yeats later, I sat down to watch it again.
I am more aware now of the interesting and at times somewhat fetishistic ways in which Lucy’s virginity was treated by the men and women around her. This is just a personal opinion rather than a critique; but there’s an interesting ugliness in the men’s reactions to Lucy that is more pronounced now that I watch it again. I’m much more interested in the way that characters like Chris, Alex and Nicolo react to (and take advantage of) Lucy (and the idea of Lucy) as well as Lucy’s responses to them. And I think that such interesting complexities are a credit to the way that Bertolucci tells his stories as a director. Though I see it differently now, Stealing Beauty remains one of my favourite films.
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