Fresh
Nothing in The Son's Room is conventionally sentimental or reassuring.
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune
Overview
A psychoanalyst and his family go through profound emotional trauma when their son dies in a scuba diving accident.
Director and cast
- Nanni Moretti Director
- Nanni Moretti as Giovanni
- Laura Morante as Paola
- Jasmine Trinca as Irene
- Giuseppe Sanfelice as Andrea
- Silvio Orlando as Oscar - a Patient
- Stefano Accorsi as Tommaso - a Patient
- Claudia Della Seta as Raffaella - a Patient
- Eleonora Danco as a Patient
- Sofia Vigliar as Arianna
- Renato Scarpa as Headmaster
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
85%
Tomatometer
Fresh
The Son's Room addresses both death and life with honesty and respect.
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press
Fresh
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, Detroit News
Fresh
We are given characters so gentle and so human that we become instantly fond of them.
Eli Sanders, Seattle Times
Fresh
The Son's Room is ... not an interruption in [Moretti's] career, but a leap upward to a spiritual epiphany graced with visual elegance and energy.
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer
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