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Under The Tuscan Sun | Year: 2003 Classification: Drama Actors/Actresses: - Diane Lane as Frances Mayes - Sandra Oh - Raoul Bova - Audrey Wells Not a stand-out movie I tried to like this because this is normally the type of movie that I would choose to view and I am a Diane Lane fan, but this movie did not impress me. Diane Lane plays a fairly submissive role. She doesn't sparkle or shine, and neither does the cinematographer's rendition of the Tuscan countryside. There are some pretty scenes, but they don't carry over to set the mood for the film as they should. Certainly not enough to redeem this movie above standard fare. There are several likeable characters in the movie. I especially enjoyed the older,handsome,but unfortunately married real estate agent. I felt for Ms. Lane's character - too bad he was taken! I haven't read the book, but I read a review that said that actually the main character and her husband renovated the house in Tuscany (not the new divorcee on her own looking for love and fulfillment), so maybe that's why this movie falls short -too much artistic license. In any case, you might enjoy this light movie, or you might be disappointed, but if you like Diane Lane's natural beauty and intensity, you should see "A Walk On the Moon" (one of my favorite movies)and "Unfaithful". Check out "My House in Umbria" with Maggie Smith if you like movies that take place in Italy. Such lovely scenery - such an awful film! This is a really bad film. Okay, so it has nothing to do with the book except that it shares a title - that I could live with. But the story is hopelessly cobbled together and totally unbelievable. Surely this was a first draft of the script that they accidentally filmed? The main character is played by the pretty Diane Lane, but looks alone cannot salvage this dreadful character. She cries, she pouts, she is unbearably naive and, let's just say it, she is an idiot. The storyline is full of cliches. And where there are not cliches, there are gaping plot holes: why does her far-too-attractive-to-be-true Italian boyfriend drive a sports car when his family run a modest cafe on the beach that is supposed to support all of them? And just how does she manage to up and move to Italy without even having to fill in an immigration form? And if she was so broke that she had to move out of her mansion in San Francisco into a run-down fleabag hotel, just how the hell can she afford to suddenly buy and renovate a house in Italy, as well as living there for months with no visible means of income? The worst part of a spectacularly awful script is the love interest suddenly written in at the very last minute to tie everything up neatly - that really is bad writing of such magnitude that it deserves a special Oscar. Still, if you turn the sound off, you can enjoy genuinely beautiful photography of Italy. hooked on tuscany I have watched this movie twice so far, and will probably watch it more often. Tuscany is a countryside that got me hooked the first time I saw it appearing in front of my train window, and it is the same with the movie. So, I could empathize, seeing the same happening to "Frances" (Diane Lane) when she sees Tuscany and decides to buy a house and stay. Diane Lane in one of her best roles, her face very expressive, her acting excellent. Buy Under The Tuscan Sun at Amazon.com Buy posters at Allposters.com Jamster - the latest ringtones for your phone!  Search with Walhello on the Internet on Under The Tuscan Sun Search with the Priority Search Engine on Under The Tuscan Sun This page in other languages: Suomeksi | Nederlands | Deutsch
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