Product: Under the Tuscan Sun (2003)
Rating: 4.0
Lane is delightful
Diane Lane is always welcome. She is a great actress with impecable range (just watch Unfaithful) and she has the power and strength to carry a film on her shoulders. She's like the female version of Russell Crowe (and just about as hot). Anyways, this review is not about Diane, but about Under the Tuscan Sun. The film was not what I expected. This is not your tipical 'chick flick' as so many have labled it. It's a drama about finding the stregth inside to move on and live a better life. To give yourself credit where credit is due and to take chances even when your afraid. Let fate step in and roll with the punches. What is so great about this film is that as you watch you see how Frances grows with each obsticle that befalls her. You see Frances (Lane) is going through a divorce because her husband left her for a younger woman. Her husband ends up buying the house from her and after being urged to take her lesbian friends gay tour of Italy she uses the money she gained from the sale of her house to purchase a villa in Tuscany. From that point on it's one journey after another, from the reconstruction of her home to falling in love all over again, but it will not end like you'd assume so don't get too depressed thinking this is another love story. It's far from it. THis is a story about finding yourself, not about finding a man.