Under the Tuscan Sun
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Under the Tuscan Sun (2003)
Directed by Audrey Wells Screenplay by Audrey Wells, based on the book by Frances Mayes
- You know when you come across one of those empty shell people, and you think "What the hell happened to you?" Well there came a time in each one of those lives where they are standing at a crossroads… someplace where they had to decide whether to turn left or right. This is no time to be a chicken-shit, Frances.
- It's market day in Cortona— the piazza is an on-going party— and everyone is invited.
- Bramasole!
- Sorry everybody, unscheduled stop.
- Stop the Bus!
- Un signo de Dio.
- A sign from God
- Okay, Yes.
- The fact that I'm trying to speak Polish in italy is one of the many suprises around here.
- Ice cream changed my fate.
- Do you know what the most suprising thing about divorce is? -It doesn't actually kill you, like a bullet to the heart, or a head-on car wreck. It should. When… someone you've promised to cherish… "'til death do you part"… says they never loved you… it should kill you instantly. You shouldn't have to wake up day after day after that trying to understand how in the world you didn't know.
- They built it because they knew… someday the train would come.
- Regrets are a waste of time… they're just the past crippling you in the present.
- Do traffic lights mean anything around here?
Yeah, sure. Green Light: avanti! avanti!, Yellow light: decoration.
And what about Red light?
—Just a suggestion.
- So what? If you smash into something good you… should… hold on 'til it's time to let go.
- I still got it! I still got it! I still got it! —Thank God!
- Jesus, Frances, how do you do it— how do you ever breathe again.
- Life is strange.
- In Italian, the literal translation of "to give birth"— "Dare alla Luce"— is: "to give to the light".
- What brings you to Positano?
- There is nothing to regret.
- She's "Sylvia" in La Dolce Vita. She's very good actually.
- No matter what happens— always keep your childish innocence— it's is the most important thing.
- What can I do?
- What you describe is only in fairy tales.
- I looked for it and I didn't find it— but that doesnt mean it doesn't exist.
- You're right. I got my wish. I got everything that I asked for.
- They say they built the train tracks over the Alps between Vienna and Venice before there was a train that could make the trip. They built it anyway. They knew one day a train would come.
- Any arbitrary turning along the way, and I would be elsewhere. I would be different.
- The house protects the dreamer. Unthinkably good things can happen, even late in the game. Its such a suprise.
- And what does that make me? Saint Francesca, patron saint of horny teenagers?
