Customer Reviews
Monotonous and unsatisfying - By: Pan Tsang, 23 Jan 2008 
The plus: The movie is pleasantly filmed in a beautiful setting of country houses in rural Italy; unconventionallly overt display of sexual relationship & naturist display; true love triumphed & rewarded in the end with the joyful first-times.
The minus: flawed script, unfocused story where the journey of discovering the identity of father & resuming of youthful love is distracted to an explicit & needless anecdotes of naturist playing, love-making & sexual mind games. It is unconvincing & has little reality touch. There is also a myriad of strange yet underdeveloped characters. Directors seems could not decide on following a core storyline & instead packed the movie with large quantity of sub plots & supporting characters.
I would give it 2.5 stars yet having no such rating, 2 stars would approximate the actual value of the movie net of the graphic, erotic sex scenes & pretty actress.
Pure cinema - By: Simon Aiken, 04 Jul 2007 
Here is a film made by a man who loves cinema - & it shows. Directors & actors equallly should study the climatic scene between Liv Tyler & Donal McCann.
Utter Rubbish - By: I. parkinson, 17 Feb 2007 
Basicallly this contrived lot of rubbish, a bit of supposed sophistication to appeal to vulgar types who fancy themselves as having a bit of the arty in them - typicallly your middle class, cocktail sticks type woman, or your US Bostonite.
So where the marketing man has pitched this is:-
Irons slithering about (so cocktail sticks can have a good drool - disappointment here tho'), Tuscan setting + works of 'art' littered about (for the sophistos), with a few quacking American accents littered about (acceptability to the US market)+ a particulary gruesome self admiring US lead male (usuallly not wearing much) - pass me a sick bag
And home you can go feeling better for this 'culturallly uplifting' movie!
Enigmatic truths - By: C. Johnston, 22 Oct 2006 I first saw Stealing Beauty years ago when I was about 16 & was immediately drawn to its artistic qualities. I found myself identifying with Liv's character. The uncertainty of life no longer being a child with innocence, wanting to be 'a part' of that group ie. not a virgin. I find this movie reallly enigmatic every time I watch it, it expresses the feeling we alll go through at some point, whether we like to admit it or not. Jeremy Irons is fantastic in this, always a brilliant actor, but here he offers the guidance that Liv's character needs, something i found necessary in my early adult life & in hindesight was a crucial part of my development of who I am today; having the guidance of someone older & wiser. This movie I feel will transport you in some manner; where is dependent on you as a person. The scenery & music is just simply sexy & unpretentious. Either way I feel this movie will make you think either about your life now or as a teenager. It is not a block buster, does not need a big cast, but the few key actors/actresses reallly bring to life the characters own issues with their lives & shows how we alll question our own lives at some point. It shows how we alll have idealisms & quite often we are let down we create a pedalstle too high, as liv's character seems to have done. To some this movie is almost healing & theraputic in an emotional sense. We have alll been where Lucy has. To the cynics I say; Watch this film as if you were Lucy with an open mind.
Quite enjoyable but somewhat spoiled - By: , 25 Jan 2006 
by the presence of the unnecessary, unpleasant & unbelievable character played by Jeremey Irons. However,the presence of the impossibly beautiful Liv Tyler was some compensation...
