Article: FILM REVIEW: 'Under the Tuscan Sun' a feel-good autumn film

Julia Monsour
University Wire
10-03-2003
(The California Aggie) (U-WIRE) DAVIS, Calif. -- "Under the Tuscan Sun" presents a postcard reality where colors are extraordinarily vivid and views are picturesque to the point of disbelief. After the second aerial shot of a never-ending field of sunflowers, however, it occurred to me that this is yet another Dorothy wandering down the yellow brick road trying to find her way home via Emerald City.

But in this version, a woman travels to Italy, not Oz, makes love to an Italian man rather than getting lost in the woods, and remodels a Tuscan villa to find home rather than tapping her ruby slippers together.

The film stars Diane Lane as Frances Mayes, ...

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