"The Salt of Life" (Gianni e le donne)

The latest film from director/writer/star Gianni DiGregorio, the filmmaker/star of the popular Mid-August Lunch. Gianni (Gianni Di Gregorio) is a middle-aged retiree who has become invisible to all the women in his life, regardless of age or relation. 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. "Rueful, funny and wise" – Los Angeles Times. (NR. Italy, 2011, comedy, 90 minutes.)