Frances (Diane Lane) is having a mid-life crisis thanks to her husband, who decides he wants a divorce - he also wants to keep the house, collect alimony, and spend the rest of his life with his new girlfriend. The break-up is a messy one and after months in the "Camp Divorce" apartments, Frances is homeless and heartbroken.With the help and encouragement of her best friend Patti (Sandra Oh), Frances takes her settlement check and heads off to tour Italy. To prove to herself she can be spontaneous, Frances makes an impulse buy - a dilapidated villa in Tuscany. She starts remodeling her house with a team of skilled enthusiastic Polish laborers and her ever-endearing friend/lawyer/realtor, Signor Martini (Vincent Riotta). Frances meets an Italian heartthrob, Marcello (Raoul Bova), and begins to allow the tranquility and heavenly chaos of the Tuscan sun to bring her back to life.This movie is funny and sad at the same time, with little bittersweet moments that constantly bring Frances back to reality, but the soothing effect of living on Tuscan time bring out the best in her.If ever a movie was a postcard - this is it. And unlike the postcard that Frances writes, this deserves to be sent out into the world - even if it's too poetic and you can't "smell the purple". The lush Italian landscapes, from the coast to the wine regions, are a cinematographer's dream - kudos to Geoffrey Simpson for making it look like a fantasyland. Diane Lane delivers a terrific performance that rivals her Oscar-nominated role last year. She shows that she can be fun, vulnerable, dramatic, intelligent, sexy, and wounded - switching gears in an instant. There is a guidebook to Italy, but it probably doesn't have these helpful hints:
Gay & Away Tours doesn't mean it's for happy people on holiday.
Any actress that used to star in Fellini films is probably going to be dramatic.
If your renovation crew doesn't speak English, but one looks like a Polish Kevin Kline, the job might not get finished quickly, but it will be entertaining.
Italian men have a way with words and with their hands and they think all American women want to sleep with them - but if they look like Marcello, who can blame them.
This movie is smaltzy, sappy, sentimental, and romantic - so naturally, we loved it.
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i watched this movie by myself,i enjoyed it so much.
it is just very lovely.
one day we will go to italy together, and go to a small town exactly like that one and drink wine while some adorable old man with a hat is playing the violine somewhere around. ahah;)
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