The Salt of Life
2011 · Movie · 90 min · ★ 6.0
In his warm and witty follow-up to the 2010 hit "Mid-August Lunch," writer-director-actor Gianni Di Gregorio has created another sparkling comedy with a dash of bittersweet. In THE SALT OF LIFE, Gianni plays a middle-aged retiree who has become invisible to all the women of Rome, regardless of age or relation. He contends with a demanding mother (played by Lunch's great nonagenarian Valeria de Franciscis Bendoni), a patronizing wife, a slacker daughter, and a wild party-girl neighbor who uses him - as a dog walker. Watching his codger friends snare beautiful young girlfriends on the sun-kissed cobblestones of Trastevere, Gianni tries his polite, utterly gracious best to generate some kind of extracurricular love life - with both hilarious and poignant results.
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Details
- Original title
- Gianni e le donne
- Years
- 2011
- Release date
- 2011-02-11
- Language
- Italian
- Runtime
- 90 min
- TMDB rating
- 6.0/10 (53 votes)
Themes
- maturity
Cast & crew
Gianni Di Gregorio
as Gianni
- VF
Valeria De Franciscis
as La Madre
Alfonso Santagata
as Alfonso
Elisabetta Piccolomini
as La Moglie
Valéria Cavalli
as Valeria
Aylin Prandi
as Aylin
Kristina Cepraga
as Kristina
Michelangelo Ciminale
as Michelangelo
Lilia Silvi
as Lilia
Directed by Gianni Di Gregorio