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Salt of Life
In Mid-August Lunch, Di Gregorio was single and lived with Valeria; in Salt of Life he is married, with a stroppy daughter, and paranoid that his increasingly erratic mother is blowing all the family money on expensive food and extravagant gift giving. (Indeed, the opening scene sees Gianni attempt to foist a power-of-attorney on her, but is too sappy to actually pull it off). But Di Gregorio's central concern here is the romantic life of his screen alter-ego: his feminized existence, as nursemaid to his mother and house-husband to a not-especially-sympathetic wife, is jolted out of its torpor when he notices the voluptuous home help employed by his mother. Still, it awakens some long-buried desire to assert his masculinity, a desire only amplified by the sense that all the other ancient gents around him are snaring beautiful young things left, right and centre. Directors: Gianni di Gregorio Starring: Alfonso Santagata, Elisabetta Piccolomini, Gianni di Gregorio, Valeria Cavalli Rating: 12A Year: 2011 Country: Italy Length: 90min (subtitled) |