Life offers you a thousand chances ... all you have to do is take one.That was the tagline for the movie Under The Tuscan Sun showing on the telly this lazy Saturday evening. I have always wanted to watch this movie when it was released about 5 years ago - the major attraction being the beautiful and romantic Tuscany which I hoped to visit one day and of course, the attractive Diane Lane :)
Under the Tuscan Sun is a 2003 film directed by Audrey Wells based on the 1996 memoir of the same name by American author Frances Mayes. The movie tells the story from a woman's heart but with a breadth of humor and drama that should appeal to anyone who wants to believe, or needs to hope, that there really is a light at the end of the tunnel of marital infidelity and dissolution.
The story is about Frances who entered a wondrous new world when she began restoring an abandoned villa in the spectacular Tuscan countryside. 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.
The Tuscanic view was so breathtakingly beautiful - with cottages, sprawling hills, spring and flowers in myriad colours, romantic pathwalks, space, space, space - that anyone should be entranced by it's sheer visual assault on the senses. It feels like I have taken a trip to Tuscany for that short moment.
This beautiful movie and memoir about taking chances, living in Italy, loving a house, and, always, the pleasures of food, would be a perfect gift for me. But it is delicious, you have gotta see it for yourself.
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