The Salt of Life (Italian: Gianni e le donne) is the second film from writer/director/actor Gianni Di Gregorio, whose began his directorial career with 2010's Mid-August Lunch
Plot of The Salt of Life (2011)
Gianni (Gianni Di Gregorio) is 60 and might as well be invisible (except when it's helpful). Smothered by his mother (Valeria de Franciscis), ignored by his wife (Elisabetta Piccolomini), and befriended (against his will) by his daughter's layabout boyfriend, he finds retirement to be not quite what he'd hoped for. He sets out to find himself a love life, to comic and charming effect.
Cast of The Salt of Life (2011)
Gianni Di Gregorio ... Giovanni Brandani detto Gianni
Valeria De Franciscis ... La madre di Gianni (as Valeria De Franciscis Bendoni)
Alfonso Santagata ... l'avvocato Alfonso
Elisabetta Piccolomini ... La moglie di Gianni
Valeria Cavalli ... Valeria
Aylin Prandi ... Aylin
Kristina Cepraga ... Kristina
Michelangelo Ciminale ... Michelangelo
Teresa Di Gregorio ... Teresa
Lilia Silvi ... Lilia
Gabriella Sborgi ... Gabriella
Elisa Alessandro
Cinzia Bernardini
Giovanna Cau
Tommaso Colucci
Storyline
Gianni is sixty. He is retired but has not become lazy for all that. In fact he is a helpful fellow who gives a hand to all those who need one: shopping for his wife, walking the pretty neighbor's dog, and so on. Everybody likes Gianni, but is it for the right reasons? Doesn't his wife profit by the situation (she still works so it is only logical that Gianni do all the chores)? Isn't he subject to the excruciating whims of his rich mother?... Sure, everybody LIKES Gianni, but who LOVES him? Agreed, being kind to them, he is the ladies pet, but he does not attract them anymore. That is why, when his macho lawyer friend Alfonso blames him for not having young mistresses "like every other senior Italian male", Gianni, who is beginning to ask himself questions about what it is like to become old, starts chasing dames...
Plot of The Salt of Life (2011)
Gianni (Gianni Di Gregorio) is 60 and might as well be invisible (except when it's helpful). Smothered by his mother (Valeria de Franciscis), ignored by his wife (Elisabetta Piccolomini), and befriended (against his will) by his daughter's layabout boyfriend, he finds retirement to be not quite what he'd hoped for. He sets out to find himself a love life, to comic and charming effect.
Cast of The Salt of Life (2011)
Gianni Di Gregorio ... Giovanni Brandani detto Gianni
Valeria De Franciscis ... La madre di Gianni (as Valeria De Franciscis Bendoni)
Alfonso Santagata ... l'avvocato Alfonso
Elisabetta Piccolomini ... La moglie di Gianni
Valeria Cavalli ... Valeria
Aylin Prandi ... Aylin
Kristina Cepraga ... Kristina
Michelangelo Ciminale ... Michelangelo
Teresa Di Gregorio ... Teresa
Lilia Silvi ... Lilia
Gabriella Sborgi ... Gabriella
Elisa Alessandro
Cinzia Bernardini
Giovanna Cau
Tommaso Colucci
Storyline
Gianni is sixty. He is retired but has not become lazy for all that. In fact he is a helpful fellow who gives a hand to all those who need one: shopping for his wife, walking the pretty neighbor's dog, and so on. Everybody likes Gianni, but is it for the right reasons? Doesn't his wife profit by the situation (she still works so it is only logical that Gianni do all the chores)? Isn't he subject to the excruciating whims of his rich mother?... Sure, everybody LIKES Gianni, but who LOVES him? Agreed, being kind to them, he is the ladies pet, but he does not attract them anymore. That is why, when his macho lawyer friend Alfonso blames him for not having young mistresses "like every other senior Italian male", Gianni, who is beginning to ask himself questions about what it is like to become old, starts chasing dames...
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