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Stealing Beauty

screenplay
Pages
110
Published
1996
Language
English

Synopsis

From the acclaimed writer Susan Minot, author of Monkeys, Lust & Other Stories, and Folly, and the legendary filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci, director of Last Tango in Paris, The Last Emperor (winner of nine Academy Awards, including Best Director and Best Picture), The Sheltering Sky, and Little Buddha, comes a hauntingly beautiful film about innocence, seduction, and the pain and pleasures of youth. Following the death of her mother, nineteen-year-old Lucy Harmon is sent by her father to Italy to stay with old family friends and to have her portrait done. She is eager to renew her acquaintance with Niccolo Donati, the handsome young boy from a neighboring family with whom she shared her first kiss on a visit years earlier, and anxious to solve a riddle left in her mother's diary - the answer to which may change Lucy's life forever.

About the author

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Susan Minot

Susan Minot is the author of the novel 30 unter 40. Her work often explores themes of family and coming-of-age.

Characters

Lucy HarmonProtagonist
Niccolo DonatiSupporting
All characters in Stealing Beauty