La Stanza del Figlio (The Son's Room) (2001)
Average Rating: 7.3/10
Reviews Counted: 82
Fresh: 69 | Rotten: 13
The Son's Room is a moving and contemplative study of grief.
Average Rating: 7.6/10
Critic Reviews: 30
Fresh: 27 | Rotten: 3
The Son's Room is a moving and contemplative study of grief.
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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
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Cast
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Nanni Moretti
Giovanni -
Laura Morante
Paola -
Jasmine Trinca
Irene -
Giuseppe Sanfelice
Andrea -
Sofia Vigliar
Arianna -
Silvio Orlando
Oscar -
Stefano Accorsi
Tommaso -
Stefano Abbati
Patient -
Toni Bertorelli
Patient -
Dario Cantarelli
Patient -
Eleanora Danco
Patient -
Luisa De Santis
Patient -
Renato Scarpa
Headmast -
Roberto Nobile
Priest -
Antonio Petrocelli
Ernrico -
Paolo DeVita
Lucino's father -
Roberto De Francesco
Record store clerk -
Claudio Santamaria
Dive Shop Clerk -
Silvia Bonucci
Carla -
Lorenzo Alessandri
Filippo's Father -
Alessandro Ascoli
Stefano -
Marcello Bernacchini
Luciano -
Alessandro Infusini
Matteo -
Emanuele Nardo
Filippo -
Claudia Della Seta
Patient -
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All Critics (99) | Top Critics (34) | Fresh (69) | Rotten (13) | DVD (5)
With tender skill, [director] Moretti illuminates Samuel Beckett's familiar summation 'I can't go on--I'll go on.'
Top CriticNothing in The Son's Room is conventionally sentimental or reassuring.
Chances are, if you were impressed by In the Bedroom, you'll be even more taken by Moretti's wrenching little film.
The Son's Room addresses both death and life with honesty and respect.
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.
We are given characters so gentle and so human that we become instantly fond of them.
Moretti's comedies and sarires are more interesting than this family melodrama about loss and grief, though he should be commended for making a touching and sensitive film that never descends into cloying bathos.
A work of powerful understatement, artfully crafted and subtly acted.
We're all guilty of worrying about things that are completely unimportant; this film is a wonderful reminder that we shouldn't.
A thoughtful and haunting study of the ways a family copes with the unthinkable.
The Son's Room is a sob story that is too pat for my taste.
proves once again that some of the best films do not come from America.
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.
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.
Moretti plays Giovanni, a psychiatrist who predictably finds it difficult to sustain interest in his profession after the family tragedy. Too predictably, in fact.
Ranks with such films as In the Bedroom, Ordinary People, and Terms of Endearment in the sensitivity with which it observes the effect a child's death on the remaining members of the family.
This is not an easy film. But it could be, by its art and heart, a necessary one.
A gentle, compassionate drama about grief and healing.
Seeps into your consciousness, never letting go even when it's finished.
Heartbreakingly precise emotions.
An honest and compelling film that effectively explores grief and the search for resolution.
Told lovingly and for the most part realistically, The Son's Room -- which won Cannes' latest Palme d'Or -- has moments of power within its quiet atmosphere, and showcases Moretti's moving performance.
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Foreign Titles
- Das Zimmer meines Sohnes (DE)
- The Son's Room (UK)
