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Salt on Our Skin is a canadien film of genre Drama directed by Andrew Birkin with Greta Scacchi

Salt on Our Skin (1992)

Salt on Our Skin
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Length 1h50
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OriginCanada
Genres Drama,    Romance
Rating61% 3.093033.093033.093033.093033.09303

Salt on Our Skin is a 1992 romantic-drama film, directed by Andrew Birkin, starring Greta Scacchi and Vincent D'Onofrio. The film is based on Benoîte Groult’s novel Les vaisseaux du coeur published in 1988. The plot follows the passionate relationship between mismatched lovers, a Parisian intellectual woman and a Scottish fisherman, brought together by lust. Their passionate encounters over 30 years make both their lives worth living. Scacchi and D'Onofrio were a real life couple at that time.

Synopsis

On the death of her lover, George McEwan, a half French/half Scottish woman, recounts in flashback her passionate relationship with Gavin McCall, a humble fisherman. Their romance goes back in time more than thirty years.

Actors

Greta Scacchi

(George)Vincent D'Onofrio

(Gavin)Shirley Henderson

(Mary)Anaïs Jeanneret

(Frédérique)Claudine Auger

(George's Mother)
And :
Hanns Zischler
Charles Berling
Robert Higden
Sandra Voe
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