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The Salt of Life: Film Review

In his sophomore outing, 62-year-old Gianni Di Gregorio proves that the delicate touch and comic understatement of his acclaimed 2008 directorial debut, Mid-August Lunch, were anything but beginner's luck. In The Salt of Life, the actor-writer-director again plays his own alter ego, and gives us another deceptively small, vaguely autobiographical story with universal resonance, in more technically assured packaging.