Gianni e le donne

The salt of life
Director
Gianni Di Gregorio
Country
Italy
Year
2011
Genre
Fiction
Scriptwriters
Gianni Di Gregorio
Cast
Gianni Di Gregorio / Valeria De Franciscis Bendoni / Alfonso Santagata / Aylin Prandi
Production
BiBi Film / Isaria Productions / Rai Cinema

Storyline

There are plenty of things that Gianni, a married man who has recently retired, needs to think about, but love certainly isn’t one of them. Gianni lives with his wife and daughter in a small apartment in Rome. He spends his days walking his dog as well his attractive neighbour’s mutt, shopping for cleaning agents and food and – under his wife’s vigilant eye – paying the bills. But then one day Gianni’s old friend Alfonso tells him some astonishing things about his recent sexual escapades. Somehow Gianni seems to have ignored the fact that all his contemporaries are in the throes of reliving their youth. Even old Maurizio who always hangs out in a shell suit has found a younger woman. For this reason, Alfonso decides that it’s time that Gianni rejuvenated his love life and found himself a girlfriend. And yet, in spite of his best endeavours among all the fairer sex of his acquaintance, and a dose of Viagra, good old Gianni still seems to chug along like a rusty motor. Nonetheless, the spark plugs have indeed been ignited – one only wonders if and when the engine will begin turning over.

 

Festivals & Academy awards and others

Berlin International Film Festival 2011
Berlinale Special

Releases

Spain (26 of August 2011)
Netherlands (11 of August 2011)
France (1 of June 2011)
Italy (11 of February 2011)