The Salt of Life

In Movie Theaters:    March 2, 2012 New York
March 9, 2012
March 9, 2012
Directed by:    Gianni Di Gregorio
Starring:
more credits    Gianni Di Gregorio
Distributed by:    Zeitgeist Films
Running Time:    90 minutes
Genres:    Comedy
Language:    Italian

Synopsis: In The Salt of Life, Gianni Di Gianni plays a middle-aged retiree who has become invisible to all distaff Romans, regardless of age or relation. He contends with an aristocratic, spendthrift mother (played by Valeria de Franciscis); a wife who is more patronizing friend than romantic partner; a daughter (played by Di Gregorio's daughter Teresa) with a slacker boyfriend whom Gianni 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, Gianni tries his polite, utterly gracious best to generate some kind of extracurricular love life--with both hilarious and poignant results.