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The Salt of Life

2011, Movie, 1h 30min

Gianni is sixty. He is retired but has not become lazy for all that. In fact he is a helpful fellow who gives a hand to all those who need one: shopping for his wife, walking the pretty neighbor's dog, and so on. Everybody likes Gianni, but is it for the right reasons? Doesn't his wife profit by the situation (she still works so it is only logical that Gianni do all the chores)? Isn't he subject to the excruciating whims of his rich mother?... Sure, everybody LIKES Gianni, but who LOVES him? Agreed, being kind to them, he is the ladies pet, but he does not attract them anymore. That is why, when his macho lawyer friend Alfonso blames him for not having young mistresses "like every other senior Italian male", Gianni, who is beginning to ask himself questions about what it is like to become old, starts chasing dames.

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Reviews

Critic David Parkinson

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...Di Gregorio conveys the pangs of ageing with a gentle if regretful wit whose charm is reinforced by the impeccable script and deft playing.

Read full review at Empire

Critic Andrew Pulver

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Following 'Mid-August Lunch', Gianni Di Gregorio manages to serve up a second, equally sweet helping of Italian charm

Read full review at The Guardian

Critic Peter Bradshaw

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...a kind of romantic realist-fantasia with Fellini in its DNA, and a little of Woody Allen.

Read full review at The Guardian

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