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Plot Summary
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.
Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews
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83%- Reviews Counted: 47
- Fresh: 39
- Rotten: 8
- Average Rating: 7.0/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Fresh: 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.
Fresh: Rueful, funny and wise, "The Salt of Life" is a comedy not of errors but of the tiniest of missteps.
Fresh: 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.
Rotten: 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.
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