Salt of Life (2011)

Review: Salt of Life (2011)

Director: Gianni Di Gregorio

Cast: Gianni Di Gregorio, Valeria De Franciscis, Alfonso Santagata, Elisabetta Piccolomini, Valéria Cavalli,

Gianni Di Gregorio
Gianni Di Gregorio
Valeria De Franciscis
Valeria De Franciscis
Alfonso Santagata
Alfonso Santagata
Elisabetta Piccolomini
Elisabetta Piccolomini
Valéria Cavalli
Valéria Cavalli

Plot: 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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