What is We Have a Pope / The Salt of Life about?

Name: We Have a Pope / The Salt of Life
Released: 2011-11-15

Double Feature: WE HAVE A POPE, 2011, IFC Films, 102 min. Luis Bunuel favorite Michel Piccoli stars as Cardinal Melville, who fears being elected as the new pope after appointment by his co-cardinals in the Sistine Chapel. With filmmaker Nanni Moretti in a hilarious turn as the shrink summoned to get to the bottom of Melville's mental stability and papal potential. In Italian with English subtitles. THE SALT OF LIFE, 2011, Zeitgeist, 90 min. Filmmaker Gianni Di Gregorio's follow-up to his sleeper hit MID-AUGUST LUNCH centers on Gianni, an aging retiree who spends his time either being treated as an errand boy by his wife and elderly mother or bemoaning his waning attractiveness to the opposite sex. When Gianni's friend Alfredo comes up with a philandering scheme for them to both find younger girlfriends, Gianni is reminded of the thrills of meeting beautiful women - and of the nagging suspicion that such trysts may be just daydreams. In Italian with English subtitles.

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What is We Have a Pope / The Salt of Life about?: Double Feature: WE HAVE A POPE, 2011, IFC Films, 102 min. Luis Bunuel favorite Michel Piccoli stars as Cardinal Melville, who fears being elected as the new pope after appointment by his co-cardinals in the Sistine Chapel. With filmmaker Nanni Moretti in a hilarious turn as the shrink summoned to get to the bottom of Melville's mental stability and papal potential. In Italian with English subtitles.

THE SALT OF LIFE, 2011, Zeitgeist, 90 min. Filmmaker Gianni Di Gregorio's follow-up to his sleeper hit MID-AUGUST LUNCH centers on Gianni, an aging retiree who spends his time either being treated as an errand boy by his wife and elderly mother or bemoaning his waning attractiveness to the opposite sex. When Gianni's friend Alfredo comes up with a philandering scheme for them to both find younger girlfriends, Gianni is reminded of the thrills of meeting beautiful women - and of the nagging suspicion that such trysts may be just daydreams. In Italian with English subtitles.