The Salt of Life 2012 DVD Release Date
- Actors: Gianni Di Gregorio, Valeria de Franciscis, Alfonso Santagata
- Directors: Gianni Di Gregorio
- Format: Color, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
- Language: Italian
- Subtitles: English
- Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Number of discs: 1
- Rated: Unrated
- Studio: Zeitgeist Films
- DVD Release Date: September 18, 2012
- Run Time: 90 minutes
Customer Reviews
Forced to retire at 50, Gianni finds himself unnecessary in his wife's and daughter's lives (though there's obvious affection, and the little we see of his relationship with his wife has the comfortableness of long companionship). And he is perpetually at his mother's beck and call despite her having a full time caregiver. One of Gianni's friends brings to his attention some of the other older men who area carrying on affairs with younger women and begins encouraging him to pursue his own affair with a younger woman - any younger woman.
Gianni begins to notice attractive young women everywhere - almost as though surrounded by them (at one point, he is). These beauties, though, almost seem to live in a world where he is a ghost; observing them while he goes unnoticed. He also begins noting a separate world of old men, unconnected to a life with women and fears becoming one of them. He makes awkward attempts with a few of the attractive young women who are aware of him, tries to rekindle an old flame, and gets shanghaied to be "wingman" on an attempted double-pickup. Many of the women are unselfconsciously beautiful and charming. Others, simply capitalize on their good looks to encourage older men to spend money on them.
The humor is mostly gentle, and often subtle, relying on lingering moments and tiny shifts of posture and gaze.
"The Salt of Life" reveals a bit of the difference between the life we have vs. the life we imagine we could have and how they are reconciled (or not).
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); 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.
DVD Special Features Include:
Gorgeous HD master, enhanced for widescreen viewing
30 minutes of behind-the-scenes footage
U.S. theatrical trailer
DVD Release Date on The Salt of Life 2012
