ScoobyMint Disappointment for a huge fan!

Baseshment I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Jerrie It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

Justina The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

devikamenon 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

movie reviews I loved Mid August Lunch and like this movie even more. De Gregorio creates fun light "plights of daily living" comedies. They are entertaining fun and enjoyable.In this movie Gregorio (who writes directs and is the protagonist in these movies) is having a mid life crisis...he has retired and thinks his life will become fuller if he takes on a mistress---he finds out unbelievably that a much older man who sits with his friends out on the street in front of his house has done this very thing. Of course he is thwarted in this quest and that is where the humor lies.This is wonderful light amusing life situation comedy.This movie is actually a little slicker and better filmed than Mid August Lunch the story a little more involved.RECOMMEND HIGHLY

philipfoxe On reading the summary I expected a much duller film. The big plus for me was that this is the sort of film Hollywood would destroy. It is gentle yes, absurdist yes but it neither denigrates ageing nor does it laugh at it. It is as if our protagonist woke up one day to realise he is getting old. We all know that, with luck, this moment is waiting patiently for us. He never really knows what to do next and is really hopeless with the laydeez! He lacks the confidence and assertiveness that make women notice a man, and is too prepared to be everyone's gofer. The ending is just fine too. There was never going to be a fairytale ending, though getting closer to his wife might have been an idea!

georgep53 "The Salt Of Life" is a delightful, absurdist, male menopause comedy. Gianni (Gianni Di Gregorio) is a 60 year old retiree with a libido that has gone into hyperdrive. He gets no gratification from his condescending wife who berates him for wasting his pension on frivolous expenditures. He also shares living space with an apathetic college age daughter and her no-account boyfriend who lolls away the day eating and reading the paper. His mother Valeria (Valeria De Franciscis) lives in a small villa where she treats Gianni like a servant summoning him when the TV goes on the fritz. His daily recreation consists of walking the dog and ogling the opposite sex. The elderly men he observes roosting on the sidewalk are a foreshadowing of a future he dreads and makes him all the more determined to rekindle his sex life. Actor, director and co-screenwriter Gianni Di Gregorio gives a totally authentic and wonderfully funny performance. "The Salt Of Life" is a nice piece of escapist entertainment. A hilarious 90 minute diversion. I hated to see it end.