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	"Under the Tuscan Sun" \| Salon.com
		In "Under the Tuscan Sun," a recently divorced writing professor and book reviewer -- played by Diane Lane -- escapes from her painful past in San Francisco to Tuscany, where she impulsively buys a ramshackle house that needs more work than she ever bargained for.
		Lane has some fun in "Under the Tuscan Sun": After she meets Marcello, she does a victory go-go dance in the privacy of her sun-dappled Tuscan bedroom -- it's like a free-form tribal ritual of thanks to the Gods of Great Sex, and Lane brings that exhilaration home to us.
		Every element in "Under the Tuscan Sun" is nice with a capital "N"; this is catalog moviemaking, where old houses, romances and even landscapes are spread before us as if they were little square pictures representing things that could actually belong to us, tomorrow, if we just whip out our credit cards.
	dir.salon.com /story/ent/movies/review/2003/09/26/tuscan_sun/index.html (975 words)

	Under The Tuscan Sun (2003)
		Frances Mayes’ 1996 novel, “Under The Tuscan Sun”, was a semi-autobiographical tale of the author acquiring an old, rundown Italian villa in the Tuscan town of Corton and fixing the place up — at the same time, immersing herself into the day-to-day life and customs of the locals.
		Under The Tuscan Sun is rather sparse when it comes to extras, as an audio commentary with writer/director Audrey Wells is the biggest component.
		Under The Tuscan Sun was definitely better than expected and seemed to do just enough to separate itself from the rest of the pack in the romantic-comedy genre.
	www.dvdmg.com /underthetuscansun.shtml (1829 words)

	Modamag.com \| Under The Tuscan Sun - Movie Review
		Based on the autobiographical best seller by Frances Mayes, “Under The Tuscan Sun” revolves around Frances (Diane Lane), a newly divorced woman who’s is having a hard time adjusting to her single life.
		“Tuscan Sun” is an intense reminder just how powerful an actress Lane is, for without her, this film would not have the luxury of working so well.
		“Tuscan Sun” is directed by Audrey Wells (“Guinevere”), and she is skilled enough to let the camera soak up a little Italian splendor.
	www.modamag.com /underthetuscansun.htm (630 words)

	Under the Tuscan Sun (ISBN 0767900383): Very Well Said™ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In Under the Tuscan Sun, she brings the lyrical voice of a poet, the eye of a seasoned traveler, and the discerning palate of a cook and food writer to invite readers to explore the pleasures of Italian life and to feast at her table.
		Under The Tuscan Sun takes you vicariously through the task of renovating an old villa and discovering a sanctuary that appeals to the sences and encompasses life's "simple pleasures", but Mayes has difficulty determining what those "simple pleasures" are.
		Under the Tuscan Sun is as much the story of the author's renewal as it is of Bramasole's.
	www.verywellsaid.com /titles/u/under-the-tuscan-sun-0767900383.php (5878 words)

	ReadingGroupGuides.com - UNDER THE TUSCAN SUN: At Home in Italy by Frances Mayes
		There were unexpected treasures at every turn: faded frescoes beneath the whitewash in her dining room, a vineyard under wildly overgrown brambles in the garden, and, in the nearby hill towns, vibrant markets and delightful people.
		In Under the Tuscan Sun, she brings the lyrical voice of a poet, the eye of a seasoned traveler, and the discerning palate of a cook and food writer to celebrate the pleasures of Italian life.
		Mayes's house is called "Bramasole," which literally means "yearning for the sun." However, soon after she purchases the house, Mayes dreams that its real name is "Centi Angeli," or "one hundred angels." Discuss the ways in which this proves to be a premonitory dream.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides/under_the_tuscan_sun.asp (737 words)

	'Under The Tuscan Sun'
		Under the Tuscan Sun" is as warm as the rose-colored walls in the 300-year-old villa that the recently divorced Frances (Diane Lane) buys on a whim.
		"Under the Tuscan Sun" is a vicarious vacation, a reminder of the prodigious talent of actress Lane and affirmation that even a woman called "boring and sad again, like a big fl hole" can find her way to the light and contentment again.
		"Under the Tuscan Sun" tracks the renovation of both her villa, accomplished with the help of workmen who hail from Poland, and her spirits.
	www.post-gazette.com /movies/20030926sun0926fnp3.asp (553 words)

	AfterEllen.com - Review of Under the Tuscan Sun
		The new film Under the Tuscan Sun, directed by Audrey Wells, is pretty much exactly what it appears: a light-hearted romantic comedy about heartbreak and healing set in a picturesque small town in Italy.
		The character of Katherine (Lindsay Duncan) is particularly puzzling (although mostly delightfully so), and the side-story of the young couple in love is a nice complement to the larger storyline.
		Under the Tuscan Sun is not a riveting drama or a laugh-out-loud comedy, but as a bitter-sweet story about self-discovery and dealing with what life throws at you, it mostly succeeds.
	www.afterellen.com /Movies/underthetuscansun.html (758 words)

	Under the Tuscan Sun Review - FilmFocus.Co.UK
		Equally, the beauty of the Tuscan scenery isn't hard on the eyes and I'd question the sanity of anyone who didn't leave the cinema with a strong desire to witness this beauty first-hand.
		Under the Tuscan Sun is a sweet and charming little film, but it rests on the shoulders of Lane and the beauty of its scenery.
		Nevertheless, Under the Tuscan Sun is worth a view, if only for the fantastic achievement of Diane Lane - in one of her finest roles to date.
	www.filmfocus.co.uk /review.asp?ReviewID=39 (973 words)

	Under the Tuscan Sun Review :: Hollywood.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		But Under the Tuscan Sun isn't concerned with defining a woman solely by her martial status.
		Unlike Unfaithful, in which Lane embarks on an affair that turns deadly, Under the Tuscan Sun forces her to look for love in the arms of another man. Dramatically, Lane doesn't face the same demands made of her by the sexually explicit Unfaithful.
		She takes under her wing star-crossed lovers Pawel and Chiara, a penniless Polish laborer and the daughter of an Italian olive grower, played with youthful exuberance by Pawel Szadja and Giulia Steigerwalt.
	www.hollywood.com /movies/reviews/movie/1728946 (1196 words)

	Under the Tuscan Sun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Under the Tuscan Sun is a 2003 film directed by Audrey Wells.
		It is based on a book by Frances Mayes.
		Under the Tuscan Sun at The Internet Movie Database
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Under_the_Tuscan_Sun (270 words)

	Salon Wanderlust \| "Under the Tuscan Sun"
		Instead, they wander under the unbearable sun, peeking through metal grates covering shop windows, pushing at the massive doors of locked churches, sitting on the sides of fountains while squinting into minuscule guidebooks.
		When they arrive it will be the soft, slow Tuscan twilight, fading after drinks from transparent to golden to evening blue, then, by the end of the first course, into night.
		Night happens quickly, as though the sun were pulled in one motion under the hill.
	www.salon.com /april97/wanderlust/passages970415.html (2136 words)

	Making love to a house in Under the Tuscan Sun. By David Edelstein
		On cue, the realtor tells her about a railroad line built over the Alps at a time when no train could make the trip: The builders had faith that the train would someday be designed—just as Frances must have faith that her house will be filled.
		Under the Tuscan Sun is fun early on for the tension between romance and reality, between the gorgeous eternal countryside and the entropy of old houses and inconstancy of human nature.
		The most fascinating thing about Under the Tuscan Sun is what it says about the evolution of our escapist fantasies.
	www.slate.com /id/2088924 (943 words)

	Amazon.com: Under the Tuscan Sun: Books: Frances Mayes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The recently divorced author is euphoric about the old house in the Tuscan hills that she and her new lover renovated and now live in during summer vacations and on holidays.
		A poet, food-and-travel writer, Italophile and chair of the creative writing department at San Francisco State University, Mayes is a fine wordsmith and an exemplary companion whose delight in a brick floor she has just waxed is as contagious as her pleasure in the landscape, architecture and life of the village.
		"Under the Tuscan Sun" is really an outgrowth of the diary she kept about her experiences when she first moved to Italy.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0767900383?v=glance (2264 words)

	Review: Under the Tuscan Sun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It's vaguely disconcerting to admit that, less than 24 hours after seeing Under the Tuscan Sun, the thing I remember most clearly about it is neither the characters nor the situations, but the photography.
		The part of the movie that centers on Frances' rebirth in Italy (a process that parallels the revitalization of her 300-year old home) is Under the Tuscan Sun's most compelling aspect.
		Under the Tuscan Sun isn't special enough to warrant a trip to the local multiplex unless you're in desperate need of an antidote to the lingering aftereffects of this past summer's testosterone overdose.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/u/under_tuscan.html (784 words)

	Under The Tuscan Sun Script - transcript from the screenplay and/or Diane Lane movie
		Finally, the Under The Tuscan Sun script is here for all you quotes spouting fans of the movie starring Diane Lane.
		This script is a transcript that was painstakingly transcribed using the screenplay and/or viewings of Under The Tuscan Sun.
		She puts a knife under the bed to cut the pain.
	www.script-o-rama.com /movie_scripts/u/under-the-tuscan-sun-script-transcript.html (3849 words)

	Blogcritics.org: Diane Lane in Audrey Wells's Under the Tuscan Sun
		So I hesitate to discount Diane Lane's performance in Under the Tuscan Sun simply because the occasion for it is unworthy of her.
		Under the Tuscan Sun is a comic romance about the return of spring; it's a pop celebration of fecundity in which snakes and olives symbolize the life force in the coupling that all humans seek.
		The early scene in Under the Tuscan Sun in which a novelist whose book Lane had panned gets his revenge on her is the closest her new movie comes to the experienced sensibility of Guinevere.
	blogcritics.org /archives/2003/10/12/101049.php (2357 words)

	Under the Tuscan Sun (2003): Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The dumbed-down movie version of Frances Mayes' best-selling travel memoir Under the Tuscan Sun is a virtual case study of Hollywood's irrepressible urge to lower the bar in the hopes of upping the take.
		Writer-director Audrey Wells never aims higher than postcard filmmaking, and Under The Tuscan Sun at least works on that level, by casting its little operetta of self-realization and remodeling travails against some of the most beautiful scenery in the world.
		Just soak up that Tuscan sun and wonder when Lane will get another movie, like "Unfaithful" or "A Walk on the Moon," that will let her really shine.
	www.metacritic.com /video/titles/underthetuscansun (1271 words)

	James Sanford reviews Under the Tuscan Sun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		But longtime fans of Lane know it's not uncommon for her to be the best thing about the movies she stars in; throughout her 25-year-long career she's added a touch of class to most of her projects.
		The same thing happens again in "Under the Tuscan Sun," in which Lane gives a nicely nuanced characterization of Frances, an American professor who rebounds from a divorce by purchasing a villa in Tuscany.
		"Tuscan" is directed by Audrey Wells, a screenwriter and filmmaker with a track record for turning formulaic material into something special.
	www.interbridge.com /jamessanford/2003/underthe.html (507 words)

	Under the Tuscan Sun - PittsburghLIVE.com
		An incongruous situation generates the film of "Under the Tuscan Sun," which writer-director Audrey Wells adapted from Frances Mayes' autobiographical best seller.
		Never mind that the adulterous ex-husband had been her dependent and blindsided her financially in the divorce settlement.
		Except for lapses in judgment, such as leaving all of the windows open during a torrential storm while she hides under the covers, or falling fast for a transparent smoothie named Marcello (Raoul Bova), she leads such an idealized life you'd think she had drifted into a Sophia Loren romantic comedy.
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/entertainment/s_156979.html (509 words)

	Bookreporter.com - UNDER THE TUSCAN SUN by Frances Mayes
		The "been there, done that" mentality is certainly one to eschew for UNDER THE TUSCAN SUN.
		Reading UNDER THE TUSCAN SUN makes you feel like you you have shared a slice of that devoted life --- toiled in the fields with the author, been aghast at the work ahead of you and delighted at its beatific outcome.
		Reading UNDER THE TUSCAN SUN made me giddy -- made me want to rush out and book a ticket and buy a villa and toil in its fields in the hot sun with the breeze cooling my forehead.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews/0767900383.asp (462 words)

	UNDER THE TUSCAN SUN
		Writer Frances Mayes had to be thrilled when she learned that the lovely Diane Lane would be starring in the big screen adaptation of her bestselling novel.
		Part travelogue, part autobiography, TUSCAN SUN is the story of Mayes life after her unexpected and bitter divorce.
		The film chronicles her new future as she tries to renovate her impulsively purchased, centuries-old Tuscan villa with little money and no understanding of the local rules or customs.
	www.crazy4cinema.com /Review/FilmsU/f_under_tuscan.html (312 words)

	Under the Tuscan Sun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The next morning she fondles his genitals under the covers and asks what they're called in Italian.
		Under the Tuscan Sun moves along like a sleepy summerâs day in the Italian countryside: Beautiful sights are everywhere and the mood is one of languid relaxation.
		At its heart, Tuscan Sun is a warm and artful little morality tale that proffers much encouragement and wise counsel to the down-and-out, calling viewers to never give up on life.
	www.pluggedinonline.com /movies/movies/a0001507.cfm (1164 words)

	Amazon.com: Under the Tuscan Sun (Widescreen Edition): DVD: Diane Lane,Sandra Oh,Lindsay Duncan,Raoul Bova,Vincent ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		She assembles a crew of oddballs and immigrants to repair the house; over the next year, as they work, she welcomes one of her New York friends who's pregnant and at loose ends, and she seeks love, first (tenuously) with her married real estate agent, then with a charming stranger.
		The conclusion of Under the Tuscan Sun holds no surprises, but the deft turns and observations along the way are delightful.
		The concept that formed the basis of Frances Mayes' acclaimed memoir UNDER THE TUSCAN SUN has been used as a starting point for the development of the storyline for this film.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000VD02Y?v=glance (1867 words)

	Under the Tuscan Sun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Adapting "Under the Tuscan Sun," writer-director Audrey Wells spices up Frances Mayes' best-selling memoir in a way that honors the soul of the piece while creating memorable big-screen dynamics.
		"Tuscan Sun" allows her to explore a more sympathetic, identifiable character than in her previous film.
		Wells astutely heightens the drama of Mayes' discovery: While the author and her partner searched diligently through real estate before choosing the villa Bramasole, here Frances is newly single and buys the Cortona property on an impulse.
	www.hollywoodreporter.com /thr/reviews/review_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1979652 (665 words)

	Under the Tuscan Sun : Mr. Cranky Rates the Movies : Under the Tuscan Sun
		While real peoples' divorce recovery plans typically entail curling up on the kitchen in pools of their own urine for several days, Frances takes a trip to Tuscany, where she purchases an old house and begins that journey back toward the realization that life is beautiful.
		Under the Empire of the Tuscan Sun MR_MUCUS
		Under the Tuscan Raisin In The Sun Nick-The-Knife
	www.mrcranky.com /movies/underthetuscansun.html (557 words)

	Click2Flicks - Under the Tuscan Sun: - The Story Behind The Movie - Chapter 1 - Preface
		Whether one trudges through Rome’s ruins or Pompeii’s villas, the hot sun is a welcome change from the European north.
		And if scenery is on the agenda, one could not experience a better place than the Amalfi Coast with its wondrous towns of Sorrento, Positano and Ravello.
		She picked an unlikely spot - a town called Cortona - in the region of Italy known as Tuscany.
	www.click2flicks.com /tuscan_sun/tuscan_sun_ch1.htm (155 words)

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