THE SALT OF LIFE (Gianni e le donne) is the latest offering from the director (plus writer of Gomorrah) that brought us the charming 2008 Mid-August Lunch Gianni Di Gregorio who also happens be the movies lead actor (and same character too!). The Salt Of Life you could describe as a 'coming of age' story, Gianni a man reaching retirement age as well as been married with older kids trying to cope with their problems but he is a mature man with a eye for the opposite sex!
THE SALT OF LIFE also stars Valeria De Franciscis, Alfonso Santagata, Elisabetta Piccolomini, Valeria Cavalli, Aylin Prandi, and Kristina Cepraga with Artificial Eye releasing the movie cinematically in UK & Ireland from August 12th.
Gianni, a recently retired house husband has many things to worry about but romance is not one of them.
He lives with his wife and daughter in a small apartment in Rome. His days slip by walking his and his gorgeous neighbour’s dogs, picking up cleaning and groceries, paying the bills under his wife’s strict instructions, and being taken for granted by his daughter and her lazy, unemployed boyfriend, who seems to have moved in. His ancient mother, the aristocratically coiffed Valeria, a relic from a more glamorous era, lives with her pretty careworker Cristina in a huge villa. From her crumbling HQ, Valeria is swiftly draining Gianni’s resources on poker, repairs and expensive champagne, and thinks nothing of making him cross town to fix the reception on her television.
One morning, his good friend Alfonso tells an astonished Gianni about his most recent sexual escapades. Somehow Gianni has completely failed to notice that his contemporaries are all taking a second bite of the cherry! Even old Maurizio who always wears a tracksuit has a younger lover.
Alfonso decides Gianni should take action, reinvigorate his life and get himself a girlfriend. But, despite his best efforts with some old female acquaintances interrupted by an endless stream of calls from his demanding mother and a dose of Viagra, poor old Gianni is like a rusty old motor. The spark is ignited but it is going to take a long time to get back him on the road to romance!
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