52 Films by Women Vol 10. 18. YOU, ME & TUSCANY (Director: Kat Coiro)
Pictured : 'I never promised you a vegetable garden.' Anna ( Halle Bailey ) and Michael ( Regé-Jean Page ) in a scene from the Italian-set romantic comedy, ' You, Me & Tuscany ', written by Ryan Engle and Kristen Engle and directed by Kat Coiro . Still courtesy of Universal Pictures . The romantic comedy You, Me & Tuscany gets one thing absolutely right. If you are a woman of colour and want romantic happiness, you won’t find it in Donald Trump’s America. Director Kat Coiro’s protagonist, New York-based apartment sitter Anna (Halle Bailey) meets handsome Italian realty guy Matteo (Lorenzo De Moor) in a bar and is inspired to make good an unused airline ticket to fly to Tuscany, where she hoped she’d take her now deceased mother. Arriving at a village where every available hotel room is taken, she decides to travel to Matteo’s vacant villa and go full Goldilocks. She doesn’t expect to be woken by the sound of Giuseppe (Emanuele Pacca), the singing gardener ...