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Under The Tuscan Sun

Anita Ekberg in La Dolce Vita, 1960
Lindsay Duncan in Under the Tuscan Sun, 2003

It’s funny to be doing my revisiting of romantic comedies now. There are movies my mother watched and loved, and I had absolutely no interest in when I was in my late teens and twenties. (For many reasons. Life stage reasons, ‘I’m queer I don’t want to watch hetero romantic comedy nonsense’ reasons…’ and let’s not forget ‘I am making hating romantic comedies a personality trait’. Which was true of me for a long time.)
I am now the same age my mother was when she was obsessed with Under The Tuscan Sun (2003). I expect I will relate to it more. But i also feel like this isn’t one that you see everywhere, so I don’t know if there’s stuff that didn’t age well.
I was amused to read the age of the protagonist is 35. I totally read her as just some generic version of ‘middle aged’ when I first sat through it. I suspect I’d be on the receiving end of that kind of thing though, myself, by someone the age I was then. The circle of life!
But also, oh my god you guys. This is pre-Botox! I am so fucking excited. Forehead lines!!! Oh hello forehead lines, it’s so good to see you! Fuck. We live in dark times.
I have barely started watching it, by the way. But i just couldn’t help but comment on the above. It feels a little like time travelling.

neembu:

maybe undergoing a nasty divorce, going on a trip to italy, impulsively buying a villa in tuscany, hooking up with an italian man, giving my lesbian friend and her baby a place to stay at the villa, getting my heart broken by the said italian man and finally finding family in others will fix me