Review – Stealing Beauty

This movie mostly just proves things that we already know. Bernardo Bertolucci is capable of directing a pretty but dull picture. Liv Tyler has some good angles, some bad angles, and generally not a lot of talent. And Jeremy Irons doesn’t mind playing an old guy with an inappropriate relationship with a young girl. This tedious production about a teenager’s coming of age in an artist’s villa in the Italian countryside is notable primarily because it’s old enough that Joseph Fiennes was willing to play a minor role and Rachel Weisz was willing to go topless for a scene. See if desperate