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The Salt of Life

Original title: Gianni e le donne
  • 20112011
  • Not RatedNot Rated
  • 1h 30m
IMDb RATING
6.3/10
1.8K
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Gianni e le donne (2011)
Gianni is a retiree who has become invisible to most everyone around him. In response, he tries his best to generate some kind of extracurricular love life.
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  • Comedy
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Gianni is a retiree who has become invisible to most everyone around him. In response, he tries his best to generate some kind of extracurricular love life.Gianni is a retiree who has become invisible to most everyone around him. In response, he tries his best to generate some kind of extracurricular love life.Gianni is a retiree who has become invisible to most everyone around him. In response, he tries his best to generate some kind of extracurricular love life.

IMDb RATING
6.3/10
1.8K
YOUR RATING
  • Director
    • Gianni Di Gregorio
  • Writers
    • Valerio Attanasio
    • Gianni Di Gregorio
  • Stars
    • Gianni Di Gregorio
    • Valeria De Franciscis
    • Alfonso Santagata
Top credits
  • Director
    • Gianni Di Gregorio
  • Writers
    • Valerio Attanasio
    • Gianni Di Gregorio
  • Stars
    • Gianni Di Gregorio
    • Valeria De Franciscis
    • Alfonso Santagata
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 8User reviews
    • 80Critic reviews
    • 65Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 5 nominations

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    Trailer 1:39
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    Gianni e le donne (2011)
    Gianni Di Gregorio in Gianni e le donne (2011)
    Gianni Di Gregorio, Lilia Silvi, Kristina Cepraga, and Valeria De Franciscis in Gianni e le donne (2011)
    Gianni Di Gregorio, Laura Squizzato, and Silvia Squizzato in Gianni e le donne (2011)
    Gianni Di Gregorio and Michelangelo Ciminale in Gianni e le donne (2011)
    Gianni Di Gregorio in Gianni e le donne (2011)
    Gianni Di Gregorio in Gianni e le donne (2011)
    Gianni Di Gregorio and Valeria De Franciscis in Gianni e le donne (2011)
    Gianni Di Gregorio in Gianni e le donne (2011)
    Gianni Di Gregorio in Gianni e le donne (2011)
    Gianni Di Gregorio in Gianni e le donne (2011)
    Gianni Di Gregorio and Valeria De Franciscis in Gianni e le donne (2011)

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    Gianni Di Gregorio
    Gianni Di Gregorio
    • Giovanni Brandani detto Giannias Giovanni Brandani detto Gianni
    Valeria De Franciscis
    Valeria De Franciscis
    • La madre di Giannias La madre di Gianni
    Alfonso Santagata
    • l'avvocato Alfonsoas l'avvocato Alfonso
    Elisabetta Piccolomini
    • La moglie di Giannias La moglie di Gianni
    Valeria Cavalli
    Valeria Cavalli
    • Valeriaas Valeria
    • (as Valéria Cavalli)
    Aylin Prandi
    Aylin Prandi
    • Aylinas Aylin
    Kristina Cepraga
    • Kristinaas Kristina
    Michelangelo Ciminale
    • Michelangeloas Michelangelo
    Teresa Di Gregorio
    • Teresaas Teresa
    Lilia Silvi
    Lilia Silvi
    • Liliaas Lilia
    Gabriella Sborgi
    • Gabriellaas Gabriella
    Elisa Alessandro
    • Segretario notarioas Segretario notario
    Cinzia Bernardini
    • Vigilessaas Vigilessa
    Giovanna Cau
    Giovanna Cau
    • Signore del pokeras Signore del poker
    Tommaso Colucci
    • Cocktail acidoas Cocktail acido
    Martino Comodeco
    • Signore con caneas Signore con cane
    Antonio De Mario
    • Amici del baras Amici del bar
    Iole Golino
    • Signore del pokeras Signore del poker
    • Director
      • Gianni Di Gregorio
    • Writers
      • Valerio Attanasio
      • Gianni Di Gregorio
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    Storyline

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    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... —Guy Bellinger
    • italy
    • card game
    • lying on the sidewalk
    • watching tv
    • cell phone
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    • Taglines
      • Gianni is back & looking for love...
    • Genres
      • Comedy
      • Romance
    • Certificate
      • Not Rated
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    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      Swiss censorship certificate #1008.258.
    • Connections
      Follows Mid-August Lunch (2008)
    • Soundtracks
      Here Comes Your Man
      Lyrics and music by Frank Black

      Performed by the Pixies

      (1989)

    User reviews8

    Review
    Top review
    7/10
    Sweet-salt look at the invisibility of age vs. insouciance of youth
    Lately I've come to appreciate small, intimate movies that are in the 'slice of life' style. This Italian gem I recently sampled is a worthy example.

    The eponymous Gianni is a retiree in Rome, somewhere on the long end of middle-age. His wife still works, thus he is sent off on various domestic errands during working hours, and this he is content to do. Then there's his somewhat confused daughter and her equally shiftless boyfriend who has moved into their home. There's Gianni's rich, demanding mother who has him at her beck and call. And then there's his friend and peer Alfonso, a rakish lawyer who attempts to get Gianni off the straight and narrow and into the fast lane of late-age sexual/romantic dalliance.

    Now this straight and narrow as it were, is very much Gianni's choice. It's just that he has reached a point where he is seemingly invisible to the young women around him. Invisible and inaudible. He is touchingly earnest in his realization, accepting it with a kind of shrugging melancholy. But he has the persistent Alfonso who keeps nudging him away from this acceptance; even if we don't know if Alfonso is actually successful with the young women himself.

    And there are a few very beautiful women around poor Gianni. First, the downstairs neighbor, a hazel-eyed sprite who flirts with him relentlessly, turns out to have passed off her dog-walking duties on him. Then the identical blond twins, Alfonso's clients; Gianni's mother's caretaker; another woman who is an old flame, and yet another who is an old acquaintance: they make up the rolls as he shambles around amiably trying to see where he can get.

    Read full review at http://devikamenon.blogspot.com/2016/06/foreign- movie-Friday-gianni-e-le-donne.html
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    • Jun 17, 2016

    Details

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    • Release date
      • February 11, 2011 (Italy)
    • Country of origin
      • Italy
    • Official site
      • Official site (Italy)
    • Language
      • Italian
    • Also known as
      • Gianni y sus mujeres
    • Filming locations
      • Rome, Lazio, Italy
    • Production companies
      • BiBi Film
      • Isaria Productions
      • Rai Cinema
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    Box office

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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $317,405
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $19,176
      • Mar 4, 2012
    • Gross worldwide
      • $2,850,852
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 30 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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