luciencoolness
Joined Aug 2002
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Loosely based on Frances Mayes' book "Under the Tuscan Sun", Lane stars as the 35-year-old San Francisco writer Frances Mayes. After she loses her house to her philandering husband, thanks to the retarded alimony laws of California, her best friend and pregnant lesbian Patti gives her a ticket to go to Tuscany in Italy, with a tour for homosexual people. Helped by the circumstances and the endearing mr. Martini, she decides to buy an old villa, which is refurbished by a group of Polish workers. She meets lots of interesting people along the way, and romance. All characters in the film are just charming and nice, in fact, too much so to be believable. But it makes for a nice feel-good movie, although your impression will depend very much on your own experiences in life. The message is good, though, albeit surely not for each and every individual on this planet: Life offers you a thousand chances ... all you have to do is take one. That the chance that Frances took worked out absolutely perfectly, why not. It sure is nice for a change to see homosexuals not portrayed as heterohating scum, but as nice, tolerant and charming persons. Overall, a worthwhile and interesting film if you can accept the fact that sometimes everything does come up like roses....
This film is certainly not what it's cracked up to be. The film is very boring in fact. The characters are very flat and it seems very much over-directed and unnatural. I got the impression that it's just a weak plot with throw-in-your-face lesbianism that is not erotic at any time. The story is incoherent, forced moralistic and very predictable with lots of stereotypes. I found it very hard to finish watching. I counted just three smiles in this so-called "comedy" and nothing more. At times this film is thoroughly irritating. In short, I can't recommend it at all. I am known to enjoy a good film with a lesbian theme and to me there is no such thing as being "too explicit". But this film is just three smiles short of total crap and therefore worse than cheap chocolate.