Stealing Beauty (
French:
Beauté volée;
Italian:
Io ballo da sola) is a
1996 drama film directed by
Academy Award-winning
Italian filmmaker
Bernardo Bertolucci and written by Bertolucci and
Susan Minot. It stars
Liv Tyler,
Joseph Fiennes,
Jeremy Irons, and
Rachel Weisz. The film focuses on an American teenage girl who travels to a lush Italian
villa to stay with family friends of her poet mother who recently committed
suicide. The film was actress Liv Tyler's first lead role, which garnered her critical attention, and because of this, is often seen as a starting point for her film career.
While the film takes place in
Italy, the primary language spoken by the characters is
English - however,
Italian,
French,
Spanish, and
German are also spoken by several of the characters through the course of the film.