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The Son's Room is a moving and contemplative study of grief.
All Critics (83) | Top Critics (30) | Fresh (70) | Rotten (13) | DVD (1)
Like a good shrink, Moretti watches with an unflinching but compassionate eye. Mar 6, 2018 | Full Review…
Like a good shrink, Moretti watches with an unflinching but compassionate eye.
David Ansen
With tender skill, [director] Moretti illuminates Samuel Beckett's familiar summation 'I can't go on--I'll go on.' Feb 9, 2007 | Full Review…
With tender skill, [director] Moretti illuminates Samuel Beckett's familiar summation 'I can't go on--I'll go on.'
Nothing in The Son's Room is conventionally sentimental or reassuring. Jul 20, 2002 | Rating: 4/4
Nothing in The Son's Room is conventionally sentimental or reassuring.
Michael Wilmington
The Son's Room addresses both death and life with honesty and respect. Mar 29, 2002 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
The Son's Room addresses both death and life with honesty and respect.
Terry Lawson
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. Mar 29, 2002 | Rating: 3/4
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.
Susan Stark
We are given characters so gentle and so human that we become instantly fond of them. Mar 22, 2002 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
We are given characters so gentle and so human that we become instantly fond of them.
Eli Sanders
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. Mar 9, 2012 | Rating: B | Full Review…
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.
Emanuel Levy
A work of powerful understatement, artfully crafted and subtly acted. Dec 1, 2003
A work of powerful understatement, artfully crafted and subtly acted.
Brian Gibson
We're all guilty of worrying about things that are completely unimportant; this film is a wonderful reminder that we shouldn't. Aug 18, 2003 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
We're all guilty of worrying about things that are completely unimportant; this film is a wonderful reminder that we shouldn't.
Harry Guerin
A thoughtful and haunting study of the ways a family copes with the unthinkable. Dec 8, 2002 | Rating: 4.5/5 | Full Review…
A thoughtful and haunting study of the ways a family copes with the unthinkable.
Ben Slater
The Son's Room is a sob story that is too pat for my taste. Oct 11, 2002 | Rating: C | Full Review…
The Son's Room is a sob story that is too pat for my taste.
Dennis Schwartz
proves once again that some of the best films do not come from America. Oct 11, 2002 | Rating: A | Full Review…
proves once again that some of the best films do not come from America.
Danny Minton
Very difficult to watch in spots but for all the right reasons. A tender and truly touching drama. It feels "real" and is not cloying.
Super Reviewer
Nanni Moretti bring a sentimentalist, but criative and entertaining drama, that become a study about, not only family, but individual people in they pain and hope. Finest performances with the direction by Moretti make The Son's Room, one of the best films of the 2001.
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.
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 movie dealing with the lost of the people we love the most, our children,and there is no cure for the sadness. Despite the tragedy in the movie Moretti managed to make the viewer smile even in the darkest moments.The movie was almost perfect and I was deeply moved by the good acting of these Italian actors.
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