![]() ![]() ![]() When a book hooks into the public consciousness like “Under the Tuscan Sun,” a movie adaptation often seems like a marketing fait accompli, no matter how unsuited the subject to the screen. This is no humble home this is a cottage industry built on armchair tourism and an apparently infinite craze for all things kitsch-Mediterranean. Since the book’s publication in 1996, Bramasole has also inspired two sequels, an audio CD, engagement calendars and a furniture collection featuring armoires, chairs, mirrors and nightstands on which to rest your copy of “Under the Tuscan Sun” before sinking into one of the 10 Mayes-approved beds. ![]() The mysterious stranger being a house, of course, a now very famous house the color of apricot, ringed with flowers and herbs and, following the fantastic success of Mayes’ original meditation on Tuscany, awash in a peculiar kind of celebrity. Directed by Audrey Wells, who loosely based her screenplay on Mayes’ book, the movie traces how Lane’s Frances - younger, thinner, blonder and now flying solo - travels to Tuscany whereupon she instantly falls for a mysterious stranger with the headily romantic name of Bramasole. In the film version of Frances Mayes’ restoration drama “Under the Tuscan Sun,” Diane Lane plays a version of the poet and professor also named Frances Mayes. ![]()
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