The Salt of Life

Name: The Salt of Life
Genre: Comedy
Released: March 2, 2012
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 65
Cast: Alfonso Santagata, Elisabetta Piccolomini, Gianni Di Gregorio, Valeria Cavalli, Valeria De Franciscis

2012

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Zeitgeist Films | Release Date: March 2, 2012 | Not Rated

Starring: Alfonso Santagata, Elisabetta Piccolomini, Gianni Di Gregorio, Valeria Cavalli, Valeria De Franciscis

Summary: In The Salt of Life, a middle-aged retiree has become invisible to all distaff Romans, regardless of age or relation. He contends with an aristocratic, spendthrift mother; a wife who is more patronizing friend than romantic partner; a daughter with a slacker boyfriend whom he unwillingly befriends; and a wild young neighbor who sees himIn The Salt of Life, a middle-aged retiree has become invisible to all distaff Romans, regardless of age or relation. He contends with an aristocratic, spendthrift mother; a wife who is more patronizing friend than romantic partner; a daughter with a slacker boyfriend whom he unwillingly befriends; and a wild young neighbor who sees him merely as her dog walker. Watching his “codger” friends snare beautiful younger women on the sun-kissed cobblestones of Trastevere, the man tries his polite, utterly gracious best to generate some kind of extracurricular love life—with both hilarious and poignant results. (Zeitgeist Films)… Expand

Director: Gianni Di Gregorio

Genre(s): Comedy

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 90 min

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Marc Mohan

Apr 19, 2012

This being an Italian film, and Gianni being such a hapless, kindhearted aspiring Lothario, make this perhaps the sweetest movie ever made about a guy trying to cheat on his wife. Read full review

Movieline Stephanie Zacharek

Mar 3, 2012

On the surface, The Salt of Life may seem like a movie made just for old folks. The trick is that it really is about the youth that stays with you, even when your aging body is working hard to convince you otherwise. Read full review

Walter Addiego

Mar 31, 2012

The film is full of low-key but telling observations, mostly about Gianni's plight but also about modern life in general. Read full review

Jay Weissberg

Feb 28, 2012

Di Gregorio's dialogue and performers are once again marked by a spontaneity and ease; who else working today treats so-called "middle age" with such jocular honesty? Read full review

Nick Pinkerton

Feb 28, 2012

Di Gregorio's performance sets the tone of dim hope and quiet forbearance, telling the story through reactions: an ever-accommodating smile that shades into a wince; sparkling, heavy-lidded eyes betrayed by vexed brows. Read full review

Ty Burr

Mar 15, 2012

The Salt of Life is about that moment in a man or woman's life when members of the opposite sex stop seeing them, and while the mood is jauntily sensual, the undertow is fierce. Read full review

Marjorie Baumgarten

Apr 4, 2012

This Italian import may have greater resonance for the men of Casanova's native land than it does internationally, but it definitely hits on truths infrequently addressed in the movies. Read full review

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