The Salt of Life (Club)

Mon 16 - 18 Jan

Film

Club Film:
As this film has not been certified by the Irish Film Certification Office you will need to pay an evening membership fee of €1.50 on collection of your tickets if you are not already a film club member.   This nightly membership covers you and three guests on club nights.

Gianni Di Gregorio's follow-up to his surprise hit Mid-August Lunch sees the writer-director reprising the mild-mannered ageing Roman mamma's boy character from that film. This time round he is required not to look after four old ladies but to prove he has still got what it takes by finding himself a lover. This humane comedy is given depth by the vein of melancholy and poetic longing that runs through its gentle comic sketch structure. Like Nanni Moretti or Woody Allen, Di Gregorio mines his own long-suffering face and character for comedy, and with such sympathetic presence and charm, it is the everyday realism and quietness of the comedy that wins us round in the end.

Director: Gianni Di Gregorio, 2011

Language: Italian / Subtitles