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1 online resource (streaming video file) (90 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound |
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digital |
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video file MPEG-4 Flash |
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Title from title frames. |
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Film |
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In Process Record. |
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Alfonso Santagata, Alyn Prandi, Elisabetta Piccolomini, Gabriella Sborgi, Gianni Di Gregorio, Kristina Cepraga, Laura Squizzato, Lilia Silvi, Michelangelo Ciminale, Silvia Squizzato, Teresa Di Gregorio, Valeria Cavalli, Valeria de Franciscis Bendoni |
| Event |
Originally produced by Zeitgeist Films in 2011. |
| Summary |
In his warm and witty follow-up to *Mid-August Lunch,* writer-director-actor Gianni Di Gregorio has created another sparkling comedy-this time with a dash of the bittersweet. In THE SALT OF LIFE, Gianni plays a middle-aged retiree who has become invisible to all distaff Romans, regardless of age or relation. He contends with an aristocratic mother, a wife who is more patronizing friend than romantic partner, a daughter with a slacker boyfriend whom Gianni unwillingly befriends; and a wild young neighbor. Watching his "codger" friends snare beautiful younger women 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. Nominated for the Grand Prix at the **Bratislava International Film Festival.** "*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.*" - Kenneth Turan, ***The Los Angeles Times*** |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Language |
In English |
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Motion pictures, Italian.
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Foreign films.
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Comedy.
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Balts (Indo-European people)
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Motion pictures.
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| Genre/Form |
Feature films.
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| Added Author |
Di Gregorio, Gianni, film director.
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Santagata, Alfonso, actor.
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Prandi, Alyn, actor.
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Piccolomini, Elisabetta, actor.
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Sborgi, Gabriella, actor.
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Di Gregorio, Gianni, actor.
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Cepraga, Kristina, actor.
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Squizzato, Laura, actor.
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Silvi, Lilia, 1921-2013, actor.
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Ciminale, Michelangelo, actor.
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Squizzato, Silvia, actor.
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Di Gregorio, Teresa, actor.
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Cavalli, Valeria, actor.
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De Franciscis, Valeria, 1915-2014, actor.
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Zeitgeist Films. Distributor.
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Kanopy (Firm) Distributor.
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| Music No. |
6346764 Kanopy |
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