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Beautifully filmed in Scotland, Paris and Montreal. Well acted. Storyline a bit confusing although the main theme is unrequited love. I think I've seen Scacci in other films but just can't remember which. She is a good actress but little known. D'Onofrio employs a good Scottish accent. D'Onofrio handles this role with a light touch, but he is known for offbeat characters in TV dramas. Sometimes hard to understand the dialogue. Impressive musical score. Reminds us that many young loves are tossed aside because of convention, but come back to remind us we should have followed our original instincts.

If you think the woman in this terribly scripted movie is a model for the other females in the world, then you might have to double check your mentality. She just wanted to use the male protagonist for sex. She didn't want to commit herself to him because their social standings were so different. She married to a college classmate, lived with another university scholar and felt unsatisfied. For what? Her both marriage were boring, not as wild and passionate as the young farmer-fisherman who could always give her climax after climax. So after so many years' disconnection, once she found him in the London street, she just wanted to hook him up again. For what? Sex, that's all. This woman is the worst kind. As to the movie itself, well, it's terrible!

I always wanted to watch this movie, but I never came around to it ... until earlier that is. Now as a teenager I surely was attracted to this because of the steamy theme it promised. But there is more to this than just a hot love affair. Two people who are different, but attracted to each other ... actually being "different" never stopped any love affair - it more often than not encouraged it. As is the case here. And while you get hot and steamy sexy scenes every once in a while, you also get the psychological issues and strains it gives the characters ... one might say the problems are self induced ... and they wouldn't be wrong ... the question is, aren't we all different and therefor act weird ... or whatever others would call weird. Life would be simple and boring if things would go smoothly ... even if we would wish it sometimes ... or many times. Great drama, great performances - it may be your desire ...

It is a brilliant way to prove that there is such a thing as a love that lasts. This movie is gentle and yet passionate, and the passion never fades, even throughout the years, the passion only grows stronger. Being without the person that you love is like putting salt on skin, hurts like hell. ***SPOILER*** Gavin and George spent their lives apart and yet each time they saw each other they actually found each other all over again. Even though at first she doesn't even take him seriously, at the end he turned out to be the love of her life. You will never forget this movie or the passion shown in it.

Greta Scacchi plays a famous feminist activist, while Vincent D'Onofrio portrays a humble Scots fisherman in this film from director Andrew Birkin. Despite the obvious ideological chasm between them, the two fall in love. The couple spend the rest of the film running away from commitment, only to be reunited at every turn. Salt on Our Skin is also known under the title Desire....This films was released in French in Montreal (along with the other Vincent D'Onofrio film Naked Tango)......these two films were released together by C/FP Videoand are very hard to find in the French Version these days......Naked Tango was released in Quebec under the title "Tango Passion" and Desire was released in Quebec under the name "Abandoned Passion"......they did not sell very well as French Language versions and most have disappeared.

Released as "Desire" on DVD, this flick is a love story about an unlikely pair of star-crossed lovers; he a humble Scottish fisherman (D'Onofrio) and she a capricious intellectual (Sacchi). The difference between male and female scores on IMDB.com makes this film out to be the grandmother of all chick flicks even though the film gives no good reason why two such very different protagonists would even be able to get along much less love one another from afar sustained only by periodic trysts over a couple of decades. In spite of the tenuous and somewhat contrived plot, the film does have a story to tell about a woman who learns the meaning of true love while the film begs the question; is it too late? One for the ladies, not for the laddies. (B-)

If you are looking for a movie with a prudent life lesson or just a "happy end/justice to all" thing or an ordinary chick flick, than you might want to go back to Maid In Manhattan's... It takes some life experience to let the beauty of this movie sink in... and by that I mean - no judgment, simply going for the essence, which ultimately has to be love. Why am I submitting this comment 13 years after the movie's release and 5 years since I've seen it first? Because they are timeless occasions in life, so common in this new internet/long distance dating era, in which this story reveals that you really don't need to always have it all, the socially acceptable and expected full packaged "life together" deal in order to feel the true love and happiness. This love story gives hope to those, that haven't had the luck to spend their happily ever after with a person they love and respect the most. Why it didn't happen between the main protagonists, might be the discussion point to the crew that gets their answers by judging other people's choices. For the rest of us that crave simply feeling alive, loving and loved, the storyline (not perfectly done and not perfectly acted) offers the wealth of thinking beyond the compromise and the white picket fence. Upliftng, hopeful, giving and enriching for what it is - a treasure that can happen in one's lifetime.

It is a very intense and provocative movie. I was caught and entrapped from the beginning. It is a crude love story, kinda like the grass is greener on the other side but...stuff happens. I was fascinated with how Gavin tried to be with her and how she rejected him. Gavin always loved her, but she was complicated. Her excuses were that she had to go to school in a prestigious school in France. Also,Gavin was just a fisherman and not a scholar like she desired. Then something happen to Gavin and she felt so badly, regretful. I feel she deserved it because she was very self centered. Later on she realized what her selfishness had casused;just pain and the thought of what might have been if only I would have listen to my heart and to Gavin.