Under The Tuscan Sun
Diane Lane
At first this story seems like a sad story that you did not sign up for. When I see a title with sun in it - I expect, radiant, energizing and you will not be disappointed; just hang in there, it has a nice way of telling you the history and getting you emotionally involved with Diane's character. It does it in a nice kind of sly way, it happens without you, the viewer even realizing it at first.
I love stories that help me find myself and get absorbed in their storyline and learning from fiction has always been a favorite past time for me. You can definitely get some soft, kind of nurturing, not in your face kind of learning and giggles along the way.
The scenery is breathtaking and I could watch this movie just for some of the landscaping and architectural scenes. I find myself a couple of times through the movie resisting the urge to freeze that frame and pulling out my crayons to sketch. Yes, I sketch with crayons; get over it.
There is a 2 minute knucklehead in the movie and all my favorite movies have a 2 minute knucklehead character. Ding, dang, dong, yes he is the knucklehead in my book. Don't you think?
This movie make me want a villa. I used to want a horse ranch in Montana. But that was "So, Yesterday" to quote Hilary Duff in her song. I want a villa instead; in Montana. Still wondering if a villa can be a villa in Montana or does it have to be in Italy to be an actual villa? What about the horses you say? Well, my neighbor will have horses, and bless them because I will trade homemade wine for hours of free horse trail riding. Very lovely neighbors indeed. Grapes in Montana? I do not know if they will grow. Have not thought everything through, that would require planning. Right now, I am not in the planning mood and just going on blind faith, which seems to be a part of our theme in this movie.
If I had to pick a favorite line from this movie it would have to be, "somethings must come natural". It was a line, that I knew a long time ago and apparently had forgotten it. I love movies that remind us who we were and let's us see who we are now. A great movie can help us relearn something that we had lost about ourselves along the way.
One of my favorite scenes is the very last one. I grew up surrounded by water and sometimes nothing wakes you up faster to reality, to the here, to the now than getting your feet wet.
I give this movie 3 cups of cocoa and they all have whipped cream with some sprinkles of M&M's on top.
