Salt on Our Skin (1992)
Genre: Drama / Romance
Duration: 111 minuten
Alternative titles: Desire / Salz auf Unserer Haut
Country:
Germany / Canada / France
Directed by: Andrew Birkin
Stars: Greta Scacchi, Vincent D'Onofrio and
IMDb score:
6,1 (1.318)
Releasedate: 17 September 1992
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Salt on Our Skin plot
For three decades, French intellectual George McEwan and her Scottish boyfriend, fisherman Gavin McCall have had a turbulent and passionate love affair. Attracted sexually, but driven apart by differences in education and environment. George knows that this relationship is doomed to fail, but her guts often overwhelm her.
Actors and actresses
George
Gavin
Frédérique
Ellen
George's Father
Jodie
Angus
Mary
Gavin's Mother
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The book was quite a hit at the time, and I also really loved the movie.
In the meantime, I threw the book away during the umpteenth clean-out of my bookcase room, under the motto 'if I haven't touched it in the past twenty-five years, I probably won't touch it in the next twenty-five either'. But the film did remain, and perhaps that wasn't the right choice.
In retrospect, it's hard to find what I saw in it at the time. The story is much too whiny, too forcedly romantic - and perhaps it plays a role in the fact that I have learned to avoid these kinds of 'relationships'. Romance is nice, but it shouldn't become too much Die Leiden des jungen Werthers.
But it hardly works for me as a film either. The attraction between Scacchi and D'Onofrio doesn't come across - while they were a couple at the time. Well, not for much longer, but they still could have made the effort. And perhaps even worse, for a film about eroticism, skin hunger and lust, there is very, very little nudity to be seen. As Fransman so subtly explains, we don't even get to see a bare breast of Greta, and that feels like a bit of a missed opportunity. And in line with that, the film ends in a rumination, and only then do we get to see something of what Scacchi and D'Onofrio can actually do as actors - and only then that Greta is wearing her usual silk underwear. But by then the tone has already been set, and the film has long since proven to be a failure.
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