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La Stanza del Figlio (The Son's Room) (2001)

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Average Rating: 7.3/10
Reviews Counted: 81
Fresh: 68 | Rotten: 13

The Son's Room is a moving and contemplative study of grief.

89

Average Rating: 7.6/10
Critic Reviews: 28
Fresh: 25 | Rotten: 3

The Son's Room is a moving and contemplative study of grief.

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Average Rating: 3.8/5
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A family struggles to go on after a devastating loss in this deeply emotional drama from Italy. Giovanni (Nanni Moretti) is a psychiatrist with a successful practice in a small community near the ocean. Giovanni has a warm relationship with his wife Paola (Laura Morante), and they have a pair of well-adjusted teenage kids, Andrea (Giuseppe Sanfelice) and Irene (Jasmine Trinca). But the family's calm is shattered when Andrea is unexpectedly killed in an accident. Giovanni finds it impossible to

Oct 8, 2002

$0.7M

Miramax Films

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All Critics (98) | Top Critics (31) | Fresh (68) | Rotten (13) | DVD (5)

With tender skill, [director] Moretti illuminates Samuel Beckett's familiar summation 'I can't go on--I'll go on.'

February 9, 2007 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | Comment
Chicago Reader
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Nothing in The Son's Room is conventionally sentimental or reassuring.

July 20, 2002 Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | Comment
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Chances are, if you were impressed by In the Bedroom, you'll be even more taken by Moretti's wrenching little film.

May 10, 2002 Full Review Source: Sacramento Bee | Comment
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The Son's Room addresses both death and life with honesty and respect.

March 29, 2002 Full Review Source: Detroit Free Press | Comment
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Often called Italy's answer to Woody Allen, Nanni Moretti takes a turn for the serious in The Son's Room and acquits himself in first-rate fashion.

March 29, 2002 Comment
Detroit News
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The Son's Room is ... not an interruption in [Moretti's] career, but a leap upward to a spiritual epiphany graced with visual elegance and energy.

March 13, 2002 Full Review Source: New York Observer | Comment
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A work of powerful understatement, artfully crafted and subtly acted.

December 1, 2003 Comment
Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada)

We're all guilty of worrying about things that are completely unimportant; this film is a wonderful reminder that we shouldn't.

August 18, 2003 Full Review Source: RTE Interactive (Dublin, Ireland) | Comment

A thoughtful and haunting study of the ways a family copes with the unthinkable.

December 8, 2002 Full Review Source: Film Threat | Comment
Film Threat

The Son's Room is a sob story that is too pat for my taste.

October 11, 2002 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | Comment
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

proves once again that some of the best films do not come from America.

October 11, 2002 Full Review Source: KBTV-NBC (Beaumont, TX) | Comment
KBTV-NBC (Beaumont, TX)

The Son's Room refers to every room this family will inhabit for a long time -- he's an unseen, ubiquitous presence -- but they may learn to lead ordinary, even joyful lives again.

June 14, 2002 Full Review Source: Charlotte Observer | Comment
Charlotte Observer

I certainly found its depiction of a family affected by grief far more believable and effective than the strident dish-breaking, breast-beating of In the Bedroom.

June 5, 2002 Full Review Source: Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) | Comment
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Audience Reviews for La Stanza del Figlio (The Son's Room)

The Son's Room is a simple but tender drama on loss and healing. Artfully presented and subtly acted. Great soundtrack. Precise emotive content. A silent chaos.

September 10, 2011
Jan Marc Macababayao

Super Reviewer

Got this movie recommendation The Son's Room long time ago from a dear friend and till now I saw it complete. Director Nanni Moretti told the story of a family breaking apart after the death of their son. Moretti himself played the father,a psychiatrist, that after his son's death he could not go on with his work. A

January 30, 2009
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Daisy Maduro

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