The primary issues she faces over the course of the film - outside of getting over her ex - are figuring out how to fix her villa with the help of a motley crew of builders (all of whom are a little bit in love with her), getting over writers’ block, and getting laid. While in Italy, the depressed and slightly manic Frances stumbles upon a crumbling estate and spontaneously buys it. Her loyal and sardonic best friend, Patti (Sandra Oh), who’s in possession of a spare Gay Tour of Tuscany thanks to a new pregnancy, ships Frances off to the idyllic Italian countryside. When we meet Frances, a renowned writer, she’s about to find out that her husband is cheating on her and that his mistress wants to purchase their shared house. It helps, too, that the central crises faced by Frances Mayes (Diane Lane), the protagonist of the late Audrey Wells’s 2003 rom-com drama, are relatively benign and occasionally delightful in nature. Under the Tuscan Sun is the rare film that hits all four quadrants of escapist cinema: romance, real estate, Italian food, and female friendship. Photo-Illustration: Vulture and Buena Vista Pictures “The where she’s like, ‘I’m still considered a viable sexual entity!’ - I’m like, ‘You can still have 12 babies, what are you talking about?’”
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