Alessandro Infusini, Giuseppe Sanfelice, Jasmine Trinca

A family living together in a small Northern Italian city: the parents are Giovanni and Paola and their two teenage children are Irene and Andrea. Giovanni is a psychoanalyst and in his office patient...( read more  read more... )s confide to him a long list of their neuroses and worries, in contrast to the calm of his own existence. Giovanni's life is regulated by a familiar pattern of routines and interests: walking, reading, listening to music. One Sunday morning, Giovanni suggests that he and his son enjoy a run together, but he is urgently called away to see a patient. He cannot go running with his son, and Andrea leaves to go diving with his friends. This leads to an event that changes the family's lives forever.

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R, 1 hr. 39 min.

Directed by: Nanni Moretti

Release Date: January 25, 2002

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DVD Release Date: October 8, 2002

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  • October 17, 2009
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    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...( read more) 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.
  • July 24, 2008
    Devastating. The fair scene is just amazing.
  • May 19, 2009
    "if"... but in reality, we still need to the truth although it's painfal
  • April 29, 2009
    Una de esas películas sencillas que rayan en la hermosura
  • January 25, 2009
    LETTERBOX. Tan pausada como conmovedora, logra evocar la sensación de pérdida ante la muerte. / Leisurely and moving, it's successfully evocative of the sense of loss upon death.
  • October 26, 2008
    wow what a movie..i have just seen this movie 4 the 1st time n think that this is a really powerful movie 2 watch...its got a really good cast of actors/actressess throughout this movie,,,i think that the director of this Drama, Art House & International movie had done a really g...( read more)ood job of directing this movie because you never know what 2 expect throughout this movie its really powerful movie n its a shocking movie 2 watch but its really good as well

Critic Reviews


March 5, 2002
Claudia Puig, USA Today

Stands apart for its raw, quiet emotion and its shattering sense of truth. full review

March 1, 2002
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle

The best way to see The Son's Room is to know the title and the location of the theater, and that's all. full review

March 1, 2002
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

Sometimes in a quite ordinary way a director can reach out and touch us. full review

February 28, 2002
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer

Moretti doesn't wrap the grieving, the angst, in melodrama. The facts are given. And the suffering is palpable. full review

February 8, 2002
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com

Delicately distinctive; it's the kind of picture that stirs subterranean rumbles of empathy in us rather than flashy, gushing waves. full review

January 22, 2002
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

Ultimately succeeds by striking a universal chord on the subject of inconsolable loss. full review

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