STEALING BEAUTY (1996)

A 19-year-old is sent by her father to an artists’ colony in Tuscany to have her portrait done. Surrounded by the beauty of the Tuscan hills, she connects with the artists who knew her mother and tries to discover the identity of her real father. She also hopes to meet up with a boy she kissed on a vacation visit four years previously—convinced she is in love and ready to lose her virginity. Francesca’s Pick: “…most of the film is about the joy of being young, beautiful and sexual and the dreamy state it is possible to live in when you are the center of your world… Sweetly and beautifully sensual!”