Stealing Beauty (1996)
Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci · Cinematography by Darius Khondji
R118 min63 frames
DramaRomance
The most beautiful place to be is in love.
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Stealing Beauty — official trailer
What is Stealing Beauty about?
Lucy Harmon, an American teenager is arriving in the lush Tuscan countryside to be sculpted by a family friend who lives in a beautiful villa. Lucy visited there four years earlier and exchanged a kiss with an Italian boy with whom she hopes to become reacquainted.
Stealing Beauty is a 1996 coming-of-age drama film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci and starring Jeremy Irons, Liv Tyler, Sinéad Cusack, Jean Marais, Donal McCann, D. W. Moffett, Stefania Sandrelli and Rachel Weisz. Written by Bertolucci and Susan Minot, the film is about a 19-year-old American girl who travels to a lush Tuscan villa near Siena to stay with family friends of her poet mother, who recently died. It is an international co-production of France, Italy and the United Kingdom.
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What does the cinematography of Stealing Beauty look like?
Across 63 sampled frames, Stealing Beauty builds its coverage from medium shots (37% of the sample), with close-ups (24%) carrying much of the rest. Cinematographer Darius Khondji keeps 67% of it in soft, naturalistic light. Golden-hour light is a recurring motif, appearing in 22% of the sample. Anamorphic glass shapes the frame. Focus stays shallow in 62% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings. The production design places the film in the 1990s.
What is the color palette of Stealing Beauty?
The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Stealing Beauty (1996) are #36302a, #ab8e71, #8f6f54, #48372b, #544a37, #948a73 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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