Under The Tuscan Sun
Life Offers You A Thousand Chances...All You Have To Do Is Take One.
A lawyer from America becomes frustrated with her life and decides to move to Tuscany, Italy to figure things out. After buying a dilapidated villa in the countryside, her life turns around.
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Lovely movie - maebers
This movie is wonderfully romantic. It is sweetly written and just a good girl movie. Any woman who has had any sadness in her life and needs a new start will appreciate this movie. The views are incredibly and makes you want to fly to Tuscany and live there forever!Under the Tuscan Sun - AppsScraps
Under the Tuscan Sun can be added to a short list of films so quintessential in their ability to portray areas of Italy they've become screen gems - A Room With a View, Death in Venice and Cinema Paradiso are three that pop immediately to mind. Directed by Audrey Wells, it stars Diane Lane as Frances, a recently divorced San Franciscan who builds a new life by buying a crumbling Italian villa while on a bus tour of Tuscany. Suspend reality sure. With the help of a local restate agent, she cobbles together a misfit crew of contractors to help her restore the villa and there, amid the ruins and rain, she finds a new lease on life that includes a new lover, Marcello (Raoul Bova), and the arrival of her best friend Patti (Sandra Oh) with baby in tow. Based on Frances Mayes' novel of the same, Under the Tuscan Sun brims with joy and the truth there is always life after trauma.
My rating 9 out of 10."Someday You'll Be Happy" - revsdd
Admittedly, this isn't the type of movie that normally appeals to me, but I was really quite taken with it on a number of counts. It could be described as a very gentle movie (even mildly spiritual) full of sage advice about life and how to handle the disappointments that come with it, and - being somewhat stereotypically Italian in its presentation - it has a lot about love and romance and flirtatiousness in it. It even packs a bit of humour. Not a typical guy's movie, but still very pleasant viewing. What I particularly liked was the premise that started the whole thing off. Frances (in a great performance by Diane Lane) discovers that her husband is having an affair, and they end up divorced. The lesson she learns? When your life falls apart, move on to something completely different and start picking up the pieces. Frances buys a villa in Tuscany and restarts her life, with us watching. Her problems aren't solved. She seems to think that everything revolves around finding a man and romance, but - as her friend Martini points out near the end of the movie - she ends up with everything she wanted - just not in the way she expected to get it.
At times, it's a bit slow-paced, and it's not "exciting" in the way we think of the word, but it's got a quality that draws you into it. As far as the story is concerned, my only quibble was the introduction of the character of "Ed" right at the end of the movie. Everything to that point had led to the understanding that Frances didn't need romance to be fulfilled; she had found her fulfillment with the people she had assembled around her, who had become a surrogate family. I suppose it's nice that she found someone to love, but the movie on the whole would have been more satisfying if it had ended with the gathering at the dinner table with all her friends - without Ed! That was an unsatisfying intrusion into an otherwise satisfying story.
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Lovely movie - maebers
This movie is wonderfully romantic. It is sweetly written and just a good girl movie. Any woman who has had any sadness in her life and needs a new start will appreciate this movie. The views are incredibly and makes you want to fly to Tuscany and live there ...Under the Tuscan Sun - AppsScraps
Under the Tuscan Sun can be added to a short list of films so quintessential in their ability to portray areas of Italy they've become screen gems - A Room With a View, Death in Venice and Cinema Paradiso are three that pop immediately to mind. Directed by ..."Someday You'll Be Happy" - revsdd
Admittedly, this isn't the type of movie that normally appeals to me, but I was really quite taken with it on a number of counts. It could be described as a very gentle movie (even mildly spiritual) full of sage advice about life and how to handle the disappointments ...