Carlo Cecchi, D.W. Moffett, Donal McCann
After her mother commits suicide, nineteen year old Lucy Harmon travels to Italy to have her picture painted. However, she has other reasons for wanting to go. She wants to renew her acquaintance with...( read more
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DVD Release Date: January 8, 2002
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October 27, 2008Liv Tyler plays Lucy who arrives in Tuscany to meet family, be sculpted, find out who her father is and to lose her virginity.
Liv is quite beautiful as is the Italian countryside, and coming of age stories are always fun, but this movie is tastefully done. -
March 13, 2007Simply stunning: the cinematography, the story, the acting, Liv, Italy... This brings back great memories of when I used to daydream in high school...
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September 28, 2009Beautiful story.. the cinematography was amazing..
Bertolucci knows how to make the audience feel like they are part of the story..
Jeremy Irons is brilliant and Liv Tyler gives an amazing,mature performance.. -
September 9, 2009Liv Tyler goes to Italy with the intention of losing her virginity, "finding herself" and discovering who her Dad was in this arthouse gumpf. I think she managed to do all of the above, after an hour I got bored and found better things to do, so it was just on in the background.
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October 27, 2009What should have been an epic beauiful film turns into a beautifully filmed thin plot about a girl who wants to lose her virginity. Bleah.
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September 29, 2009I belive this to be one of Liv Tyler's best movies. I thought it was beautiful.
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Critic Reviews
June 18, 2002
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
May 12, 2001
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
In contrasting the sexuality and rebellion of Lucy's generation with his own, Bertolucci clearly yearns to rekindle his creative spirit. full review
January 1, 2000
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
The movie plays like the kind of line a rich older guy would lay on a teenage model, suppressing his own intelligence and irony in order to spread out before her the wonderful world he would like to g... full review
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July 2, 2007Mistakes are a part of being
Human. Appreciate your mistakes
For what they are:
Precious life
Lessons that
Can only
Be learned
The hard way
PhD.Moris HUG
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