La Stanza del Figlio (The Son's Room) Reviews
St. Paul Pioneer Press
Your appreciation of it will depend on what experiences you bring to it and what associations you choose to make.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
culturevulture.net
Instead of building character, [The Son's Room] makes its points serially and plays like the outline of a B minus term paper in which the assigned subject is Kubler-Ross.
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
The Son's Room is a sob story that is too pat for my taste.
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| Original Score: C
A movie more to be prescribed than recommended -- as visually bland as a dentist's waiting room, complete with soothing Muzak and a cushion of predictable narrative rhythms.
Despite pitch-perfect performances, the craft of Moretti's direction and his honorable intentions, The Son's Room was not especially moving.
| Original Score: 2.5/4
Slant Magazine
More maudlin than sharp.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Compuserve
Ultimately the project comes across as clinical, detached, uninvolving, possibly prompting audience members to wonder, 'What's the point?'
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Moretti plays Giovanni, a psychiatrist who predictably finds it difficult to sustain interest in his profession after the family tragedy. Too predictably, in fact.
| Original Score: 2.5/4
While there will be those who applaud the film for generally steering clear of heavy-handed manipulation, the scenes nevertheless have a prefabricated, synthetic feel that prevent the material from being tangibly affecting.
Film Freak Central
the "too-scripted" pieces about weighty topics in La Stanzo del figlio begin to take on the hue and cry of self-satisfaction.
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| Original Score: 2/4
One Guy's Opinion
A film...whose studied deliberation comes perilously close to ponderousness.
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| Original Score: C
Sometimes in a quite ordinary way a director can reach out and touch us.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
By daring to be honest and unsparing, The Son's Room is meaningful.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
The Son's Room, possesses a quiet, haunting realism, fueled by an excellent script and assured performances all around.
Sacramento News & Review
A gentle, compassionate drama about grief and healing.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada)
A work of powerful understatement, artfully crafted and subtly acted.
It is in Moretti's nature to never be completely gloomy. Yet in striving for greater seriousness, he has proven himself capable of far more meaningful work that the comedian in him has ever before demonstrated, or admitted to.
Stands apart for its raw, quiet emotion and its shattering sense of truth.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Arizona Republic
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