Under the Tuscan Sun (2003 Audrey Wells & scr, co-prod)

From Frances Mayes autobiography 'Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy' (1996) in which she really did relocate to Cortona and bought and renovated a villa called 'Bramasole'.

The situation Diane Lane finds herself in as a result of her unfaithful husband is shocking and shows California law to be stupid. I liked Lane's performance. She's with Sandra Oh, Lindsay Duncan, Raoul Bova, Pawel Sajda, Anita Zagaria (Queen of Hearts) and Giulia Steigerwalt and action also moves to Positano, and Rome. The old man with flowers is the reputed writer-director of such films as Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958).

Shot by Geoffrey Simpson.