The Salt of Life
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  • Starring: Alfonso Santagata, Elisabetta Piccolomini, Gianni Di Gregorio, Valeria Cavalli, Valeria De Franciscis
  • Summary: In The Salt of Life, a middle-aged retiree has become invisible to all distaff Romans, regardless of age or relation. He contends with an aristocratic, spendthrift mother; a wife who is more patronizing friend than romantic partner; a daughter with a slacker boyfriend whom he 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, the man tries his polite, utterly gracious best to generate some kind of extracurricular love life—with both hilarious and poignant results. (Zeitgeist Films)… Expand

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  1. Positive: 13 out of 17
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 17
  3. Negative: 2 out of 17
  1. Portland Oregonian
    Reviewed by: Marc Mohan
    Apr 19, 2012
    83
    This being an Italian film, and Gianni being such a hapless, kindhearted aspiring Lothario, make this perhaps the sweetest movie ever made about a guy trying to cheat on his wife.
  2. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kenneth Turan
    Mar 8, 2012
    80
    Rueful, funny and wise, The Salt of Life is a comedy not of errors but of the tiniest of missteps. A warm yet melancholy film of quiet yet inescapable charm, it has a feeling for character and personality that couldn't be more delicious.
  3. St. Louis Post-Dispatch
    Reviewed by: Calvin Wilson
    Apr 20, 2012
    50
    Episodically structured and lethargically paced, the new film attempts to convince us that there's something incredibly charming about an old guy who makes a habit of ogling young women. Actually, the whole scenario is pretty creepy.
  4. Slant Magazine
    Reviewed by: Bill Weber
    Feb 27, 2012
    38
    A dry dream of postmenopausal-male sexual lethargy, this comedy's least musty ideas are among its worst.

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