The Salt of Life

Plot

Gianni is a retiree who has become invisible to most everyone around him. In response, he tries his best to generate some kind of extracurricular love life.

Release Year: 2011

Rating: 6.0/10 (424 voted)

Critic's Score: 64/100

Director:
Gianni Di Gregorio

Stars: Gianni Di Gregorio, Valeria De Franciscis, Alfonso Santagata

Storyline
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…

Writers: Gianni Di Gregorio, Valerio Attanasio

Cast:

Gianni Di Gregorio
–

Giovanni Brandori detto Gianni

Valeria De Franciscis
–

La madre di Gianni

(as Valeria De Franciscis Bendoni)

Alfonso Santagata
–

l'avvocato Alfonso

Elisabetta Piccolomini
–

La moglie di Gianni

Valeria Cavalli
–

Valeria

Aylin Prandi
–

Aylin

Kristina Cepraga
–

Kristina

Michelangelo Ciminale
–

Michelangelo

Teresa Di Gregorio
–

Teresa

Lilia Silvi
–

Lilia

Gabriella Sborgi
–

Gabriella

Laura Squizzato
–

Laura

Silvia Squizzato
–

Silvia

Details

Official Website:
Official site [Italy] |

Release Date: 11 February 2011

Filming Locations: Rome, Lazio, Italy

Gross: €850,699
(Italy)
(4 April 2011)

Technical Specs

Runtime:

90 min

Did You Know?

Trivia:

Swiss censorship certificate #1008.258.

User Review

Another gem by Gianni Di Gregorio

Rating: 10/10


After Mid August Lunch, another little great movie by Di Gregorio. In
this second film, the mise-en-scene has become more mature, as also the
structure of the script. The realism of the acting and dialogs are the
same of Mid August Lunch, giving freshness and comic reliefs to the
story. The plot is about a 60 years old man who suddenly understands
he's become "transparent" for women, simply they don't look at him in
"that certain way" anymore. But this is the surface of the movie, the
funny "hook" of the storyline. What really matters to Di Gregorio is
something else, something deeper, related to the loneliness of a man
facing old age. So sometimes the film takes a different way, turning
from the comedy for a moment, with beautiful flashes of melancholy and
bittersweet fatalism which reach levels of great cinema. The Salt of
Life suggest the birth of a new author.