Where is stealing beauty filmed

House of artists. Time of the screenshot: What's going on in movie: Lucy is heading to the swimming pool. The village. Time of the screenshot: What's going on in movie: Lucy is heading to the old house in Tuscany. Time of the screenshot: What's going on in movie: Everyone is enjoying the breakfast on the terrace.

To the party. Time of the screenshot: What's going on in movie: Our fellas just arrived to the party of their neighbour. Most Popular Movies: Stealing Beauty. Most Wanted. Filming Locations in Your Pocket. Bernardo said he was looking for an English or American writer to work with him on an idea about expat life in Tuscany.

It was probably after my second or third book. When [my novel] Monkeys came out in Italy it was, for some reason, a big success. Bertolucci knew my name. Fernanda called me up and said, "Would you be interested in working with Bernardo Bertolucci on his next movie?

Maybe I can learn something from you and we can make an interesting movie. We talked about filmmakers we loved.

And then I basically had the master class in screenwriting. He was very gentle about my ineptitude. What was the original idea? A young American or English girl goes to Tuscany to visit English expats who live there. That was the first sentence. I have to say, that was the one moment when my heart sank.

I asked, "Why that idea? So we worked with that, and I thought, OK, maybe there should be higher stakes here. I created this character of Alex who was dying, and sort of solved the problem by making that mentality his interpretation of what Lucy was there to do.

And she has another mission: to find out about her paternity, which, by the way, was written before Liv was cast. That was a real coincidence, because of her story of discovering her biological father [Steven Tyler]. Do you think Bertolucci deliberately wanted to hire a female writer to fend off possible perceptions of him as a leering man?

Who knows better than another woman? I think that he wanted a female writer for the obvious reasons. I will say Lucy was a little bit less outgoing originally in the script. She represents some kind of ideal of perfect virgin beauty, and the film's opening shots, in which a photographer on a plane sees her sleeping and takes closeups of her lips and crotch, set the tone. The sad thing is that, sleeping, she embodies what she represents to this movie just as well as when she's awake.

Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from until his death in In , he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism. Jean Marais as M. Jeremy Irons as Alex Parrish. Moffett as Richard Reed. Liv Tyler as Lucy Harmon. Sinead Cusack as Diana Grayson. Carlo Cecchi as Carol Lisca. Donal McCann as Ian Grayson. Reviews Stealing Beauty. Roger Ebert June 28, Now streaming on:. Mary Jo Sorgani Maria as Maria. Leonardo Treviglio Lieutenant as Lieutenant.

Rebecca Valpy Daisy as Daisy. Alessandra Vanzi Marta as Marta. Rachel Weisz Miranda as Miranda. Bernardo Bertolucci. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. For 20 years many visitors have come to the villa on an Italian hilltop owned by an English artist. Lucy, a 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. The most beautiful place to be is in love. Rated R for strong sexuality, nudity, some drug use and language.

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