After a rough divorce, Frances, a 35 year old book editor from San Francisco takes a tour of Tuscany at the urgings of her friends. On a whim she buys Bramasole, a run down villa in the Tuscan countryside and begins to piece her life together starting with the villa and finds that life sometimes has unexpected ways of giving her everything she wanted.
Has about as much in common with Frances Mayes as it does with Willie Mays, but it does have the marvelous Diane Lane.
– Eleanor Ringel Gillespie,
Atlanta Journal-Constitution,
27 Sep 2003
rotten:
Under the Tuscan Sun pretends to be juicy, but it doesn't allow any dribbles. It purports to make love all over us, but not without laying down lots of paper towels first.
– Stephanie Zacharek,
Salon.com,
28 Sep 2003
fresh:
... some of the most beautiful photography in any film I've seen this year.
– Richard Roeper,
Ebert & Roeper,
29 Sep 2003
fresh:
The movie is sweet but deeply suspect: It's like Lost Horizon re-imagined by a realtor.
– David Edelstein,
Slate,
29 Sep 2003
fresh:
The epitome of what a feel-good movie is supposed to be but rarely is, this one is beautiful to look at and life-affirming to think about, and it doesn't have a pretentious bone in its head.