Once you get over your jealousy of the cast and crew getting the chance to spend so much time in such a beautiful country you can sit back and enjoy everything Under the Tuscan Sun has to offer.
For the guys out there, yes, this is a chick-flick but one you will like, at least I did. Diane Lane plays the freshly divorced San Francisco writer and book critic, Frances Mayes, and is practically forced by her friends to get out of the rut she has currently found herself in.
Frances’s lesbian friend Patti (Oh) has found herself pregnant and in love with her partner and it just so happens that the two had been planning a trip to Tuscany, but with the baby on the way have decided they don’t want to fly. So they offer Frances the ticket and the chance to experience Tuscany on the “Gay Away” tour, understandably reluctant at first Frances soon gives in and is on her way.
Surrounded by strangers Frances finally gets her chance to do a little soul searching and a stray comment from a chance meeting in the streets of Italy she can’t help herself but to be impulsive and trying to shake herself out of her post-breakup funk she pipes up and stops the tour bus as they pass a run-down villa.
It is there that she finds her “Bramasole,” which is translated as “something that yearns for the sun” and begins her life Under the Tuscan Sun.
As she renovates her new purchase and tries to pull herself out of her current funk she is almost forced to her breaking point, but soon finds that the lives she touches all seem to shine, and all her wishes are soon realized.
Diane Lane is just as excellent as Tuscany in this film and it helps you remember why she was nominated for an Academy Award for her performance along side
