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The Son's Room (La stanza del figlio)

Movie · 2001 · 15 people

A family's collapse after the death of a child is the subject of The Son's Room (La stanza del figlio), an Italian-French drama directed by Nanni Moretti. It opened in Italy on 9 March 2001 and in Turkey on 11 January 2002, and runs about 99 minutes. It competed at Cannes that year and won the Palme d'Or, along with the David di Donatello for Best Film. Reviews were positive, and Empire magazine placed it on its 2008 list of the 500 greatest films.

The story opens on the orderly, contented life of Giovanni Sermonti, a successful and sought-after psychologist in Ancona. Moretti plays Giovanni himself, with Laura Morante as his wife Paola, Jasmine Trinca as their daughter Irene and Giuseppe Sanfelice as their son Andrea. When the son dies, the routines that held Giovanni's life together end. Tension with his wife grows beyond anything they could foresee and the two drift apart, while their daughter, caught in the middle, starts questioning her own life on her own.

Moretti wrote the script with Linda Ferri and Heidrun Schleef; Sacher Film and StudioCanal produced. Shooting took place largely in and around Ancona. Italy submitted it for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar at the 74th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated.

DirectorNanni Moretti
Production companySacher Film

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Jasmine Trinca Jasmine Trinca Actor · 45 years old Renato Scarpa Renato Scarpa Actor · died at 82 Nanni Moretti Laura Morante Giuseppe Sanfelice Roberto Nobile Silvio Orlando Stefano Accorsi Stefano Abbati Dario Cantarelli Paolo De Vita Roberto De Francesco Claudio Santamaria Antonio Petrocelli Lorenzo Alessandri

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Cinephile Looks at script, editing and directing choices; keeps a distance from formula films.

In The Son's Room Moretti tells grief not through big scenes but through the small details of routines falling apart. The first part patiently builds the orderly family life in Ancona, which makes the emptiness that follows all the more palpable; the structure turns loss from an event into a process. Moretti standing in front of the camera as well as behind it, as the psychologist Giovanni, gives the film a controlled, almost reticent tone. Laura Morante and Jasmine Trinca carry this quiet unravelling convincingly. Still, the restraint can feel distant to some viewers, and an edit that steers clear of emotional peaks occasionally flattens the rhythm too much. The Palme d'Or is no surprise, but the film asks for patience.

Family Viewer Asks whether the whole household can watch it; cares about humour and heart.

This film is about losing a child, and the subject is genuinely heavy. Crude language and violence are not what it is about, but grief, tension and hurt within the family run all the way through. It is not one to watch with young children. Better to watch it with teenagers or adults, leaving time to talk afterwards. It makes you think about what holds a family together.

Yeşilçam Nostalgic A viewer raised on the classics, looking for warm storytelling and strong acting.

The Son's Room recalls something the finest old dramas knew: great sorrow is best told in silence. Moretti never forces the tears; he shows the small absences in a family's home and leaves the rest to the audience. For an eye raised on the classics, that delicacy is precious. Even so, viewers who look for the warm, embracing sentiment of Yeşilçam may find its cool, measured air a little cold. But few films speak about family bonds this honestly.

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