Rent The Son's Room (2001)
3.6 of 5 from 141 ratings
1h 35min
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- Synopsis:
The story of family grief and bereavement. Psychiatrist Giovanni (Nanni Moretti) lives happily with his family in a small Italian coastal town. One Sunday he is due to spend time with his son Andrea (Giuseppe Sanfelice), when he receives an anguished call from Oscar (Silvio Orlando), one of his patients, and feels he must go and see him instead; however later that afternoon Andrea accidentally drowns in a diving accident. Over the following weeks, Giovanni, his wife Paola (Laura Morante), and daughter Irene (Jasmine Trinca), remain shell-shocked with grief; with Giovanni suspending his practice, and relations between himself and Paola becoming increasingly difficult. When a letter then arrives from a girl who Andrea had met the previous summer, who none of the family knew anything about, they all become curious to learn more about this person who meant so much to their departed son and brother. - Actors:
- Nanni Moretti, Laura Morante, Jasmine Trinca, Giuseppe Sanfelice, Stefano Abbati, Stefano Accorsi, Toni Bertorelli, Dario Cantarelli, Eleonora Danco, Claudia Della Seta, Luisa De Santis, Silvio Orlando, Sofia Vigliar, Renato Scarpa, Roberto Nobile, Paolo De Vita, Roberto De Francesco, Claudio Santamaria, Antonio Petrocelli, Lorenzo Alessandri
- Directors:
- Nanni Moretti
- Producers:
- Angelo Barbagallo, Federico Fabrizio, Vincenzo Galluzzo, Lorenzo Luccarini, Nanni Moretti
- Writers:
- Nanni Moretti, Linda Ferri, Heidrun Schleef
- Aka:
- La stanza del figlio
- Studio:
- Momentum
- Genres:
- Drama
- Collections:
- Top 10 Cannes Palme d'Or Winners, Top Films
- Countries:
- Italy
- Awards:
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 23/11/2020
- Run Time:
- 100 minutes
- Languages:
- Italian DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0
- Subtitles:
- English
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.66:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Interview with Nanni Moretti and Laura Morante - Cannes Film Festival 2001 (19 min)
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Reviews (1) of The Son's Room
Stays Put in Your Chest - The Son's Room review by griggs
Giovanni’s whole job is listening to other people’s problems — which makes it darkly funny that he can’t hear his own. That’s the joke quietly sitting under Nanni Moretti’s The Son’s Room.
For the first half hour you’re watching a family potter about: Sunday dinners, a patient’s tedious confession, mild panic over a fossil the son may or may not have nicked from school. Then the phone rings and everything rearranges itself, and the film never raises its voice again. Grief here isn’t tears and thunder — it’s Giovanni sitting in his office doing nothing, or driving nowhere in particular.
I was expecting a tearjerker but instead was winded — not the same thing at all. The ending, with the drive to the border and that beach at dawn, has no business working on paper. It wrecked me anyway.
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