Salt on Our Skin

Salt on Our Skin is a 1992 romanticdrama film, directed by Andrew Birkin, starring Greta Scacchi and Vincent DOnofrio. The film is based on Benote Groults 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 overyears make both their lives worth living. Scacchi and DOnofrio were a real life couple at that time.

In the 1950s, George, then a vivacious young woman living in France, comes to Scotland to spend her long summer vacation with her younger sister, Frdrique. While helping the locals take in the straw, she meets an attractive and simple man Gavin, whose sister, Mary, becomes one of her friends. Smitten with each other, George and Gavin begin a torrid affair going for a moonlit swim. As the summer ends, George and her sister return to attend school in Paris where they live with their parents. Mary asks the two sisters to be her bridesmaids. Back in Scotland for Marys wedding, George and Gavin continue their romance escaping the wedding celebration on a cave at the seashore.Months later, back in France, George is surprised by Gavins visit. She shows him Paris while they continue their love affair. He asks her to marry him but she refuses. George wants to study at the Sorbonne and pursue her intellectual goals. She does not see herself as the wife of a fisherman in a Scottish Village. Realizing that, for her, the cultural and life style differences between them are too great to overcome, she refuses his marriage proposal. Their lives take separate ways and they stop seeing each other. George becomes an intellectual and feminist activist. She marries and has a son. Ten years later, George, now divorced, moves to Quebec pursuing an academic career teaching and writing a book on womens studies. Her second marriage to Sidney, an intellectual, proves to be dry and ends in divorce. ........

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