Stealing Beauty (1996) on Netflix
Lucy Harmon, nineteen, comes to a Tuscan villa where Ian, a sculptor, will carve her portrait. She hopes to see Niccolò Donati again and to learn who her father is.
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Plot summary
After the death of her mother, the poet Sara Harmon, nineteen-year-old Lucy Harmon travels from America to a villa in Tuscany, where her mother's friends Ian and Diana Grayson live. Ian is a sculptor, and Lucy is to sit for a portrait he will carve. Lucy has two hopes for the summer: to see Niccolò Donati, the boy she kissed four years ago on an earlier visit, and to learn the identity of her biological father.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Stealing Beauty (1996)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Björk's "Bachelorette" was originally written for the soundtrack under the working title "Bertolucci", but she later faxed Bertolucci to tell him the song would be used on her own album, 1997's Homogenic, instead.
- Liv Tyler admitted she bitterly fought against appearing topless in the film, saying the thought of showing your body parts is terrifying, "let alone the whole world", and that she fought it until the very end.
- The film was made entirely in the Tuscany region of Italy during the summer of 1995, with the estate of Castello di Brolio and a small villa on the property as the main location.
- Stealing Beauty was the third highest-grossing Italian film of 1996 with a gross of $6.5 million there, and it took £879,695 in the United Kingdom and $4.7 million in the United States and Canada.
