Under the Tuscan Sun Critic Reviews
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All elements click in "Sun," a shimmering, deeply felt film.Read the full review
The cliches are obscured by the sheer fun of it all. Read the full review
You come away enchanted less by the character than by the woman playing her. Read the full review
What redeems the film is its successful escapism, and Lane's performance. They are closely linked.Read the full review
Chalk it all up to prettiness, if you like, but Lane's case has more to do with spirit -- with warmth and emotional readiness, plus a kind of open-book quality that makes her both lovely and comical, usually at the same time.Read the full review
A fun movie to sit through even when you don't always buy it.Read the full review
This is a beautifully shot motion picture, and there's no doubt that the lush scenery upstages the actors.Read the full review
Lane transforms this seriocomic saga of a devastated American divorcee who impulsively purchases a Tuscan villa, thereby changing her life, into a spellbinding display of emotional transparency.Read the full review
The movie is sweet but deeply suspect: It's like "Lost Horizon" re-imagined by a realtor. Read the full review
The author was able to compensate for the book's plotlessness by contemplating other people leading full lives quite as important as hers. In Wells' movie adaptation, even the birth of a friend's baby becomes all about Frances and the play of emotions on Lane's busy, beautiful face.Read the full review
