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Gianni E Le Donne
''The Salt of Life'' ( it, Gianni e le donne) is the second film from writer/director/actor Gianni Di Gregorio, who began his directorial career with 2008’s ''Mid-August Lunch''. Plot Gianni (Gianni Di Gregorio) is 60 and might as well be invisible (except when others need something from him). 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. Critical reception The film has received widespread critical acclaim. The Guardian wrote: The Salt of Life "is packed with subtly observed details of behaviour and gesture of a kind we associate with Ealing comedy at its zenith, and an elaborate Chekhovian story is being told before we realise it". Los Angeles Times wrote: "rueful, funny and wise...a comedy not of errors but of the tiniest of missteps ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gianni Di Gregorio
Gianni Di Gregorio (born 19 February 1949) is an Italian director, screenwriter and actor. Life and career Born in Rome, Di Gregorio trained as a stage actor and director in the Drama School of Alessandro Fersen. He started his professional career as a screenwriter in the second half of the 1980s. In the 1990s Di Gregorio started collaborating with Matteo Garrone as a screenwriter, an actor and an assistant director, their most famous work being the 2008 award winning film '' Gomorrah''. He made his directorial debut in 2008, with the critically acclaimed Mid-August Lunch, which he also wrote and starred; he followed that up with three other films in the same vein The Salt of Life (2011), Good for Nothing (2014) & Citizen of the World (2019). Filmography * ''Giovanni Senzapensieri'' (1986, co-writer) * '' Sembra morto... ma è solo svenuto'' (1986, co-writer) * '' Stazione di servizio'' (1989, co-writer, 2 episodes) * '' Affetti speciali'' (1989, co-writer) * '' Naufraghi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |