The chaotic scent of summer

Kirstin 2022-02-07 14:51:33

Most of the films that intend to express cultural conflict are arrogant and dignified, but "Stealing Fragrance" is so soft, brisk, and bright. In a warm orange light, the beauty of the Italian countryside smears the director's strong nostalgia. 24 years after Bertolucci took out this work in "Last Tango in Paris", whether compared with the "Dreamers" before and after, she is more like a prose poem with sharp edges and corners - more than aesthetic, powerful insufficient.

This is due to the fact that Liv Tyler is too beautiful, too beautiful, and the classical style in the charm is much closer to Greece than to the United States. Because she melted into this exotic town too quickly—in temperament and appearance—it reduced the conflict and tension it should have, and simplifies the story. Shouldn't it be a sudden beauty, because her appearance broke the original balance?

This secular town had deposited too many secrets, and Lucy's arrival obviously meant a reckoning. Since beauty is an abstract concept, how can it be stolen? Lucy just used youth to awaken youth, and used beauty to lure out the pursuit of beauty, but in the end, youth and beauty are as fragile as a virgin's chastity, full of chance, precarious, and gone forever.

With the only clues and the girl's calculations, Lucy embarks on this adventure. She had sincerely hoped to be recognized by every man, although none of them were perfect, but in any case, it was better than nothing. Because in this confused summer, the knot she most wanted to untie was called "loneliness".

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Extended Reading
  • Winston 2022-03-19 09:01:10

    Some directors are born literary and artistic, no matter how the film is made, the strong literary and artistic temperament is lingering, such as Bertolucci. LIV TYLER in 1996 is so beautiful that it makes people fascinated, and every picture in the movie is so beautiful that it makes people fascinated. I like the scenes where she smokes marijuana and chats about life with the dying writer, the mountain city outside Siena, the night is so sultry...

  • Blake 2022-02-07 14:51:33

    With this film, the director tries to rediscover a true, pure form of cinema, and to break away from the forms of the past that made him an epic, international writer's film. The hostess of the villa confessed to her husband that she wanted to leave this beautiful and comfortable Tuscany and return to the foggy, rainy hometown where the milk always spoiled. Director Bertolucci seems to be trying to explain her trip to and return through her choices.

Stealing Beauty quotes

  • Niccoló Donati: So, Lucy Harmon, how long are you staying and what do you think of Italy and when are you going to come to our house and see how real Italians live and change your life forever?

  • Michele Lisca: This is the book.

    Noemi: "Adolphe" by Benjamin Constant.

    Michele Lisca: It's all about ideals and passion.

    Noemi: Ah, a fairy tale!

    Michele Lisca: Read it.