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Roger Ebert, RogerEbert.com: VERY GOOD (cg) "...a movie about a man who is past his shelf life. Sooner or later, he'll end up sitting in front of that cafe with the other guys. He knows it. He even tries it one day." (Read the full review...) 655 words, 03/30/12
Stephen Holden, New York Times: GOOD "Most of all you are thankful for what the film is not: another farce in which a lecherous codger makes a fool of himself over a babe." (Read the full review...) 607 words, 03/02/12 Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times/Chicago Tribune: EXCELLENT "Rueful, funny and wise... A warm yet melancholy film of quiet yet inescapable charm, it has a feeling for character and personality that couldn't be more delicious." (Read the full review...) 655 words, 03/09/12 Rafer Guzman, New York Newsday: MODERATE (cg) "...pleasant but barely there comedy would hardly be worth mentioning if it weren't the follow-up to the slightly meatier 'Mid-August Lunch'..." (Read the full review...) 343 words, 03/09/12 Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: VERY GOOD (cg) "...a movie about a man who is past his shelf life. Sooner or later, he'll end up sitting in front of that cafe with the other guys. He knows it. He even tries it one day." (Read the full review...) 655 words, 03/30/12 Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice/LA Weekly: GOOD "...conveys the longings of a flâneur with yet-young eyes, clinging to the right side of the divide between late middle-age and true senescence..." (Read the full review...) 226 words, 02/29/12 Linda Barnard, Toronto Star: VERY GOOD (cg) "If Gianni Di Gregorio's wryly charming family comedy 'Mid-August Lunch' was the main course, the Italian writer-director-actor serves up a sweet dessert with 'The Salt of Life.' " (Read the full review...) 567 words, 04/06/12 Liam Lacey, Toronto Globe & Mail: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "Though you can empathize with Gianni's loneliness, the lecherous buffoon is too much of a stock type to feel fresh. At times, the comedy is shamelessly broad." (Read the full review...) 666 words, 04/06/12 Glenn Sumi, Toronto Now: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...a very European midlife crisis movie (nobody blinks at the idea of his pondering an affair) with little plot and no real big laughs." (Read the full review...) 226 words, 04/05/12
Stephanie Merry, Washington Post: MODERATE (cg) "It feels as if Di Gregorio spent so much time painstakingly painting the cruelty of the peripheral female figures that he forgot to add any dimension to the protagonist." (Read the full review...) 530 words, 04/27/12 Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: VERY GOOD (cg) "...a wistful portrait of a man in the throes of a later-than-midlife crisis... Imbued with gentle humor and a kind of bittersweet resignation..." (Read the full review...) 299 words, 04/06/12 Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star-Tribune: VERY GOOD (cg) "...plays like a postscript to Truffaut's domestic comedies as Gianni, age notwithstanding, continues to wrestle with selfish immaturity and emotional impulsiveness." (Read the full review...) 160 words, 04/27/12 Ty Burr, Boston Globe: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...ambles along the line between comedy and melancholy... The film's Italian, so the food and the women are beautiful, ripe, overabundant." (Read the full review...) 538 words, 03/16/12 Walter Addiego, San Francisco Chronicle: VERY GOOD (cg) "...full of low-key but telling observations... Di Gregorio's background is in theater and screenwriting (he was among co-writers of the crime drama 'Gomorrah')..." (Read the full review...) 382 words, 03/30/12 Tom Keogh, Seattle Times: VERY GOOD (cg) "Di Gregorio has a sympathetic and hangdog-funny presence throughout. But he captures the creeping disorientation to life that comes, inexorably, with time." (Read the full review...) 272 words, 04/06/12 Marc Mohan, Portland Oregonian: EXCELLENT (cg) "...maintains the same Chianti-dry wit that made Gianni Di Gregorio's previous film such a pleasant diversion." (Read the full review...) 180 words, 02/10/12 Calvin Wilson, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: MODERATE (cg) "...attempts to convince us that there's something incredibly charming about an old guy who makes a habit of ogling young women.... the whole scenario is pretty creepy." (Read the full review...) 323 words, 04/20/12
Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice/LA Weekly: GOOD "...conveys the longings of a flâneur with yet-young eyes, clinging to the right side of the divide between late middle-age and true senescence..." (Read the full review...) 226 words, 02/29/12 Gerald Peary, Boston Phoenix: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...deftly sprinkles wacky humor in with the melancholy, and Gianni Di Gregorio is a winning talent, both as the amusing star actor and as the film's co-writer and director." (Read the full review...) 111 words, 03/15/12 Alison Willmore, AV Club: VERY GOOD (cg) "The breeziness of 'The Salt of Life' disguises a barbed consideration of mortality and being written off, becoming part of the scenery in later life..." (Read the full review...) 413 words, 03/01/12 Stephanie Zacharek, Movieline: EXCELLENT (cg) "On the surface, 'The Salt of Life' may seem like a movie made just for old folks. The trick is that it really is about the youth that stays with you..." (Read the full review...) 891 words, 03/02/12 Bill Weber, Slant: WEAK (cg) "An otherwise bland stew of postmenopausal-male sexual lethargy... early-retiree Roman everyman (director and co-writer Gianni Di Gregorio) is characterized by sexless suspension." (Read the full review...) 409 words, 02/26/12 Glenn Sumi, Toronto Now: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...a very European midlife crisis movie (nobody blinks at the idea of his pondering an affair) with little plot and no real big laughs." (Read the full review...) 226 words, 04/05/12
Stephen Holden, New York Times: GOOD "Most of all you are thankful for what the film is not: another farce in which a lecherous codger makes a fool of himself over a babe." (Read the full review...) 607 words, 03/02/12 Mark Jenkins, NPR: VERY GOOD "Aided by fluid handheld camerawork from cinematographer Gogo Bianchi, Di Gregorio conjures a Rome that's homey and literally warm, with just a hint of Fellini-like frenzy." (Read the full review...) 531 words, 03/01/12 Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: EXCELLENT "Rueful, funny and wise... A warm yet melancholy film of quiet yet inescapable charm, it has a feeling for character and personality that couldn't be more delicious." (Read the full review...) 655 words, 03/09/12
Jay Weissberg, Daily Variety: GOOD "...blows fresh air around a topic long made banal by less sincere helmers... boasts the same feel for real people, making it stand out in a field of overblown Italo comedies." (Read the full review...) 661 words, 02/12/11 Natasha Senjanovic, Hollywood Reporter: EXCELLENT "A timeless comedy about aging, for all ages.... Di Gregorio again plays his own alter ego, and gives us another deceptively small, vaguely autobiographical story..." (Read the full review...) 801 words, 02/11/11 Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: EXCELLENT "Rueful, funny and wise... A warm yet melancholy film of quiet yet inescapable charm, it has a feeling for character and personality that couldn't be more delicious." (Read the full review...) 655 words, 03/09/12 Stephen Holden, New York Times: GOOD "Most of all you are thankful for what the film is not: another farce in which a lecherous codger makes a fool of himself over a babe." (Read the full review...) 607 words, 03/02/12
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