Starring---
Diane lane - francesca
Sandra oh -pattie
Linsey Johnson - katherine
P. Riatti - martini
Roul Bravo - marcello
Director- Audrey Wells
It’s not easy to find love- once you have found it there’s no garuntee that it will last forever- sometimes it just leaves you alone. But through it all you will have your family and friends. They will love you, nurture you, take care of you even when you are on your knees and have nothing nothing to offer. But all this love and affection would not see you through the night until and unless you yourself want to get out of it. To actually get a hold on yourself and say, ’’hey, why should I be sad, so what somebody left me, said that he/she never loved me- so what? i’m not dead. I won’t die.’’
Based on the acclaimed bestseller of the same name, UNDER THE TUSCAN SUN is a film about changing over and making afresh start with your friends to guide and by yourself when someone you dearly loved has left you for no good.
Francesca (diane lane) is a book critic who seems to have the perfect american life... a great career, a successful writer for a husband and a beautiful home in the up-scale station of san francisco. But it was as if her world was fated to crash.
Her husband has an affair and in the divorce settlements she not only parts with him but also looses the houses. her best friend pattie (sandra oh) is pregnant and hence cannot make the romantic trip to tuscany that she had been vowing to go for. instead she offers the tickets to francesca.
Francesca was going for a 10 day outing with a group of gay tourists.<PATTIE too gay was>.but what was supposed to be a ’’breakaway-and-get-your-act-together’’ trip ended up as a move to paradise when francesca bought an antiquated villa ’’bromosole’’.
buying the place was an act of a new found spontaienity that francesca had been lacking but living there all alone was a challenge that would test her to her core. the whole point of the movie stood to see the fact whether or not she could...
martini(riatti): ’’i think you have got your wish’’
francesca: ’’what wish?’’
martini: ’’that day when you called me to look for the snake you wished to have a wedding in this villa and you wanted a family’’.
francesca (thinking): ’’yes, i think I have been granted my wish-i think I got it all.’’
The film has to its credits a marvellous and cultured humour that permeates through its every fold. The hardships and the heartbreaks that francesca goes through is rightly balanced by the warm friendships and happy associations that she makes.
It’s not a movie about replacing a bad/sour old love with a new one and end in a note of hopeful anticipation and oblivion.... rather its a movie about recognising the love that is already there and acknowledging their real worth.
This movie is not a romantic comedy the way movie channels would often classify it unless you take the word romantic in the sense as shelly and keats did. Thus anyone looking for a coochey-coo mush flick should steer clear off it.you should see this movie on a day when you want to get out of a patch (be it of depression or irritation or whatever)...when you’re feeling down and out ... because to see the way francesca found her niche is truly inspiring.