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The Salt of Life
Directed by
Gianni Di Gregorio
Not Rated
2011
90m
Comedy
,
Romance
6.3
84%
46%
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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.
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Cast of The Salt of Life
Gianni Di Gregorio
Gianni / Director / Writer
Valeria De Franciscis
La madre
Toni Santagata
Alfonso
Elisabetta Piccolomini
La moglie
Valeria Ross
Valeria
Aylin Prandi
Aylin
Kristina Cepraga
Kristina
Michelangelo Ciminale
Michelangelo
Lilia Silvi
Lilia
Valerio Attanasio
Writer
Angelo Barbagallo
Producer
The Salt of Life Ratings & Reviews
The New Republic
Stanley Kauffmann
Italian film has done us another favor-it has sent us Gianni Di Gregorio again.
Spirituality & Practice
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
An extraordinary and universal Italian film about a 60-year-old man's mid-life crisis and the sapping of his spirit.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Ken Hanke
A sweet-natured, bittersweet little movie -- and I mean little -- about growing old.
Washington Post
Stephanie Merry
At times, the sad sights are enough to make a person hope the put-upon guy finds success. The problem is, as affable as Giovanni is, there's not much more to him.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Calvin Wilson
Episodically structured and lethargically paced, the new film attempts to convince us that there's something incredibly charming about an old guy who makes a habit of ogling young women. Actually, the whole scenario is pretty creepy.
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
The movie may take some effort to get into but by the climax it's almost impossible to dislike, and I imagine on subsequent viewings this is the type of innately human saga that could grow on me to the point it becomes borderline essential.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
So hyperbolic are his fantasies that it's clear that not only will they never come true, but they never were true to begin with. Seems to me that's a better place to begin than end.
Seattle Times
Tom Keogh
"The Salt of Life" finds gentle comedy in the dilemma of a still warm-blooded if sexually marginalized fellow for whom kindness is second nature and lecherousness is alien.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Imbued with gentle humor and a kind of bittersweet resignation, The Salt of Life isn't life-changing - it's life-describing.
San Francisco Chronicle
Walter V. Addiego
The film is full of low-key but telling observations, mostly about Gianni's plight but also about modern life in general.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
This is a movie about a man who is past his shelf life.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
A quietly insistent parable of male menopause, "The Salt of Life'' ambles along the line between comedy and melancholy, rarely making a misstep but rarely looking up.
Newsday
Rafer Guzman
Like the aroma of a meal you wish you'd eaten, "The Salt of Life" is the faint suggestion of a movie you wish you'd seen.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Rueful, funny and wise, "The Salt of Life" is a comedy not of errors but of the tiniest of missteps.
Movieline
Stephanie Zacharek
To my knowledge, the only movie about the love lives of sexagenarians that closes with the Pixies' "Here Comes Your Man."
New York Times
Stephen Holden
The movie's sensuous appreciation of ripeness and abundance extends to food, clothing and foliage; the lushness of a city in bloom virtually bursts from the screen.
NPR
Mark Jenkins
Aided by fluid handheld camerawork from cinematographer Gogo Bianchi, Di Gregorio conjures a Rome that's homey and literally warm - it seems to be August again - with just a hint of Fellini-like frenzy.
AV Club
Alison Willmore
The breeziness of The Salt Of Life disguises a barbed consideration of mortality and being written off, becoming part of the scenery in later life...
Village Voice
Nick Pinkerton
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.
Slant Magazine
Bill Weber
A dry dream of postmenopausal-male sexual lethargy, this comedy's least musty ideas are among its worst.
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