Marcello: Francesca.

Frances: Yes?

Marcello: I am going to make love all over you!

Frances: Okay.
Patti: Can you star-69 Italy?
Frances: Ladybugs, Katherine. Lots and lots of ladybugs.
Katherine: It's a nice little villa. Rather run down, but redeemable. Are you going to buy it?

Frances: No, no, no. I'm, I'm just a tourist. Here for the day.

Katherine: So?

Frances: Well, I mean who wouldn't want to buy a villa in Tuscany. But, uh, the way my life's been going, that would be a terrible idea.

Katherine: Terrible idea. Mm... Don't you just love those?
Frances: I'll hire the muscular descendants of Roman gods to do the heavy lifting.
Pawel: I throw the flag.
Patti: Think of your inner voice.

Frances: Inner voice... "What the fuck am I doing on a gay tour of Tuscany?"
German Woman: You greedy Americans. You think you're so entitled. You ruin everything.

Frances: A lot of us feel really badly about that.
Patti: Frances bought a house in Tuscany! And you're going to live there alone?

Frances: Well, I'm not there alone. I'm there with bugs.

Patti: Ew.
Frances: [in voiceover] Every day I watch for the old man with the flowers, and I wonder, was he born here? Did he love someone here? Did he lose someone here? He doesn't seem as curious about me, but that's all right. These days I'm something of a loner myself.
Frances: Do you know the most surprising thing about divorce? 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 till death do you part says "I 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. The light just never went on, you know. I must have known, of course, but I was too scared to see the truth. Then fear just makes you so stupid.

Martini: No, it's not stupid, Signora Mayes. L'amore e cieco.

Frances: Oh, love is blind. Yeah, we have that saying too.

Martini: Everybody has that saying because it's true everywhere.
Frances: [voiceover] What is it about love that makes us so stupid?
Martini: Signora. Please stop being so sad. If you continue like this, I will be forced to make love to you. And I've never been unfaithful to my wife.
Frances: You're the one that made the "empty-shell person standing at the crossroads" speech.

Patti: Oh, yeah. That was me.
Patti: I refuse to screw up your love life.

Frances: Don't be ridiculous, Patti. You are my love life.
[last lines]

Frances: What are four walls, anyway? They are what they contain. The house protects the dreamer. Unthinkably good things can happen, even late in the game. It's such a surprise.
Frances: This is really bad, isn't it?

Patti: Well, it's not good. Unless you want to give your ass a facial.

Frances: That's a contradiction in terms.

Patti: i guess it would be more like an Ass-cail
[at the Flag Festival]

Patti: These are straight men.

Frances: In tights. Waving Flags.

Patti: Fantastic.

Frances: Yeah.
Frances: But, please tell the contessa that this is what I got for my house recently, in dollars, minus the work on the place, um... hammers, buckets, men,

[under her breath]

Frances: chocolate, and a rental car to drive off a cliff when this all turns out to have been a terrible mistake. That's what I can pay.
Katherine: Regrets are a waste of time. They're the past crippling you in the present.
Frances: Do traffic lights mean anythng around here?

Marcello: Sure. Green light - avanti, avanti. Yellow light - decoration.

Frances: What about red light?

Marcello: Just a suggestion.
Katherine: Never lose your childish innocence. It's the most important thing.
Pawel: [after Frances finds him and Chiara on her bed] Frances, please! We have nowhere to be together!

Frances: And what does that make me? Saint Francesca, patron saint of horny teenagers?
Martini: Signora, between Austria and Italy, there is a section of the Alps called the Semmering. It is an impossibly steep, very high part of the mountains. They built a train track over these Alps to connect Vienna and Venice. They built these tracks even before there was a train in existence that could make the trip. They built it because they knew some day, the train would come.
Frances: [narrating] So I was now the owner of a villa whose lands it would take two oxen two days to plow. Owning neither an ox nor a plow, I'd have to take their word for that.
Patti: There's something strange about these trees. It's like they know.

Frances: And they know that we know that they know.

Patti: They're creepy. Creepy Italian trees. Of course, the baby's going to like them cause it's going to be a creepy Italian baby who goes around saying things like 'Ciao mama' and doing that weird backward hand wave thing. Life is strange.
Frances: What's your name?

Marcello: Marcello.

Frances: Of course it is.
Marcello: If you smash into something good, you should hold on until it's time to let go.
Signora Raguzzi: It's a house, not a Vespa. What are you going to do, steal it?
[last lines]

Frances: Unthinkably good things can happen even late in the game. It's such a surprise.
Frances: What if this is it? The real thing?

Placido: What you speak of is only in fairy tales.

Frances: No, it's not!

Placido: And how do you know? From personal experience?

Frances: No. I looked, and I didn't find it. But that doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
Frances: What are you thinking?

Martini: What do I think?

Frances: Tell me.

Martini: I think you got your wish.

Frances: My wish?

Martini: On that day we looked for your snake, you said to me that you wanted there to be a wedding here. And then you said you wanted there to be a family here.

Frances: You're right... I got my wish. I got everything I asked for.
Katherine: Listen, when I was a little girl I used to spend hours looking for ladybugs. Finally, I'd just give up and fall asleep in the grass. When I woke up, they were crawling all over me.
Frances: Any arbitrary turning along the way and I would be elsewhere; I would be different.
[They say they built the train tracks over the Alps between Vienna and Venice before there was a train that can make the trip, they build it anyway: they knew one day a train will come]

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Under the Tuscan Sun short comments

Mortimer 2022-03-26 09:01:08

Life is chaotic, disordered, and you see a flower, a rainstorm, a ladybug, a heartbreak. You make a prayerful wish, and it will always come true, but in a different way that you never imagined. You are alone, abandoned by love and people countless times, but you can still hold weddings in the ruins, even if you are not the bride. I like this movie so much, the world is not a fairy tale, but you can always choose to praise it from a child's perspective.
Milo 2022-03-26 09:01:08

The female pig is a rich woman. She was defrauded so much money that she could still buy a house and renovate it in Italy. No reason... ! ! ★★★☆