After teenager Mattia’s mother dies unexpectedly, she has no choice but to move in with her aunt Carol, her mother’s identical twin. As Mattia grapples with the loss of her mother and this new way of life with her aunt, a treacherous family secret begins to come to light. From beyond the grave Mattia’s mother possesses her daughter, not only trying to protect Mattia from the same fate that befell her, but also to find reconciliation with her twin sister, using food as a gateway.
With SALT ALONG THE TONGUE, writer/director Parish Malfitano explores his own Italian heritage in this visionary second feature, with a haunting tale rooted in the malocchio (evil eye) superstition. Malfitano’s screenplay was a semi-finalist in Francis Ford Coppola’s American Zoetrope Screenplay Competition, and he calls the film “a love letter to my mother”, taking inspiration from Pedro Almodóvar’s Volver, as well as Possession, Three Women, and Don’t Look Now.
Australia
2024
113 minutes
Unrated
