Synopsis
After a rough divorce, Frances, a 35-year-old professor and writer from San Francisco takes a tour of Tuscany at the urgings of her friends. On a whim she buys Bramasole, a run down villa in the Tuscan countryside and begins to piece her life together starting with the villa and finds that life sometimes has unexpected ways of giving her everything she wanted.
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Cast
- Diane LaneFrances
- Sandra OhPatti
- Vincent RiottaMartini
- Lindsay DuncanKatherine
- Raoul BovaMarcello
- Pawel SzajdaPawel
- Giulia Louise SteigerwaltChiara
- Roberto NobilePlacido
- Anita ZagariaFiorella
- Evelina GoriNona Cardinale
Recommendations
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The Hollywood Reporter
All elements click in "Sun," a shimmering, deeply felt film. - 80
Washington Post
The cliches are obscured by the sheer fun of it all. - 75
Miami Herald
The whole movie is at once formulaic, clichéd and predictable, yet surprising, engaging and filled with subtle, unexpected details. - 63
ReelViews
This is a beautifully shot motion picture, and there's no doubt that the lush scenery upstages the actors. - 60
The New Yorker
This movie, though perfectly pleasant, does not have a great script. - 60
Variety
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. - 60
L.A. Weekly
The movie is not without charm or humor, but it leaves little for Lane to do besides chuckle at setbacks as if they were naughty children. - 58
Entertainment Weekly
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.
