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The Son's Room

2001 · 99 min

A quiet, devastating immersion in grief that lingers in small domestic details and slowly opens toward tentative healing.

Directed by
Nanni Moretti
Genres
Drama
Starring
Nanni Moretti, Laura Morante, Jasmine Trinca
Overview
A psychoanalyst and his family go through profound emotional trauma when their son dies in a scuba diving accident.

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Directed by
Nanni Moretti
Genres
Drama
Starring
Nanni Moretti, Laura Morante, Jasmine Trinca
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • bleakstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • grief
  • family
  • parenthood
  • isolation
  • healing
Places
  • big city
  • countryside
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror1
Humour1
Realism8
Romance2
Tension4
Darkness7
Complexity6
Emotional weight9

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Nanni Moretti
Written by
Linda Ferri, Nanni Moretti, Heidrun Schleef
Starring
Nanni Moretti, Laura Morante, Jasmine Trinca, Giuseppe Sanfelice, Silvio Orlando, Stefano Accorsi, Claudia Della Seta, Eleonora Danco
Music
Nicola Piovani
Cinematography
Giuseppe Lanci
Runtime
99 min
Country
Italy, France
Languages
Latin, Italian

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