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MFAH Film Spotlight on World Cinema: Italy - The Salt of Life (Gianni e le donne)

Presented by Museum of Fine Arts, Houston at Museum of Fine Arts Houston - Brown Auditorium

October 22, 2011

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The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presents Spotlight on World Cinema: Italy. The museum’s Italian season concludes with the Houston premieres of three new films. Special thanks to the Consulate General of Italy in Houston (Fabrizio Nava, Consul General) and the Italian Community Cultural Center.

The Salt of Life
Gianni e le donne
Directed by Gianni Di Gregorio
2011,...

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The Salt of Life
Gianni e le donne
Directed by Gianni Di Gregorio
2011, Italian with English subtitles
Italy
90 minutes

Pre-release screening courtesy of Zeitgeist Films.

In his warm and witty follow-up to the 2010 sleeper hit Mid-August Lunch, writer/director/actor Gianni Di Gregorio has created another sparkling comic ode to the ladies in his life—but this time he plays a middle-aged retiree who has become invisible to all Roman women, regardless of age or relation.

In The Salt of Life, he contends with an aristocratic, spendthrift mother (Valeria de Franciscis); a wife who is more patronizing friend than romantic partner; a daughter (Teresa Di Gregorio) with a slacker boyfriend whom Gianni unwillingly befriends; and a wild young neighbor who sees him merely as a dog walker. 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.

“A tremendous achievement. Di Gregorio navigates his film with such a sense of delicacy that its tone is never coarsened.”—Variety

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Museum of Fine Arts Houston - Brown Auditorium

1001 Bissonnet Street
Houston, TX 77006

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Tickets:

$7 General Admission
$6 Matinee Admission
$1 discount MFAH members, senior adults (55+), and students with ID
Free Children 5 and under
Free Film Buffs members
$60 Nonmember Discount Pass (10 admissions)
$55 MFAH member Discount Pass (10 admissions)
$3 Family Flicks Admission
$2 Family Flicks Admission for MFAH members and students with ID

Please note:
The MFAH Films box office accepts payment by cash, check, and credit card.

Tickets can be purchased in advance in three ways: online, in the museum lobbies, and at the box office.

The box office opens at 5:30 p.m. for weekend evening screenings and at least 30 minutes before show time for most other films.

Times:

Sat, Oct 22 7:00 PM

Phone: 713-639-7300

Parking:

Museum Parking Garage
Located directly east of the Beck and Law buildings, the MFAH Visitors Center features a four-story covered parking garage.

The easy-to-find parking entrance is on Binz, marked by a large, yellow arrow.

You're always protected from the elements when you park your car in the Museum Garage. From there, you can go to the Visitors Center lobby and find a ticketing desk and up-to-the minute museum information.

As an added convenience, you can enter the Beck and Law buildings from the Visitors Center through security-monitored, climate-controlled tunnels connecting all three buildings.

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