inform him the song would be used on her upcoming album instead. Reception Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times, gave it 2 out of 4, and wrote: "The movie plays like the kind of line a rich older guy would lay on a teenage model, suppressing his own intelligence and irony in order to spread out before her the wonderful world he would like to give her as a gift....The problem here is that many 19-year-old women, especially the beautiful international model types, would rather stain their teeth with cigarettes and go to discos with cretins on motorcycles than have all Tuscany as their sandbox." Critics such as Desson Thomson of The Washington Post, Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle, and James Berardinelli of ReelViews gave negative reviews, with Berardinelli in particular, calling the movie 'an atmosphere study, lacking characters', and Thompson calling it 'inscrutable'. Others, such as Jonathan Rosenbaum of Chicago Reader, Peter Travers of Rolling Stone, Janet Maslin of The New York Times, and Jack Mathews of the Los Angeles Times were more positive, with Rosenbaum in particular praising the movie's 'mellowness' and 'charm'. On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 50% based on 52 reviews, with an average rating of 6/10. On Metacritic the film has a score of 60% based on reviews from 20 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a grade "B−" on scale of A to F. Box office The film had admissions in France of 184,721. References External links 1990s coming-of-age drama films 1996 romantic drama films 1990s teen drama films 1990s teen romance films 1996 films British coming-of-age drama films British romantic drama films British teen drama films British teen romance films Coming-of-age romance films 1990s English-language films English-language French films English-language Italian films Films about virginity Films directed by Bernardo Bertolucci Films produced by Jeremy Thomas Films set in Tuscany Films shot in Tuscany Fox Searchlight Pictures films French coming-of-age drama films French romantic drama films French teen films 1990s French-language films 1990s German-language films Italian coming-of-age drama films Italian romantic drama films 1990s Italian-language films 1990s Spanish-language films 1996 multilingual films British multilingual films French multilingual films Italian multilingual films 1990s British films 1990s French films