Just perfect...

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

The acting in this movie is really good.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

The Son's Room (Italian: La stanza del figlio) (2001) Director: Nanni Moretti Watched: 4/2018 5/10 Simple without flair, Bad therapist portrayal, Honest but timid with risks, Still good classroom viewing for Five stages of grief tour. Tanka, literally "short poem", is a form of poetry consisting of five lines, unrhymed, with the 5-7-5-7-7 syllable format. #Tanka #PoemReview

its touch is obvious in each scene. but the theme changes the resonance of a well known style. not for dramatic impact but for solution to define it in right manner. for bitter beauty. for the fight of a family to understand. and accept. for the second chance. and for the joy of new perception of life small things. the irony of director is replaced by touching message. about the silhouette of Job looking answer to the pain. and using the question to define himself. like each film by Nanni Moretti,"La stanza del figlio" is a personal confession. and only the manner to define its terms transforms it in universal. because this is the splendid detail who transforms it in a useful story. the realism of testimony about death and hope. about joy and sorrow.about reconstruction of same life in different profound manner.

Giovanni (Nanni Moretti) is a capable psychiatrist revered by his patients, who copes with his work because he knows a loving wife, son and daughter are waiting for him at the end of the working day. The sudden death of their son in a diving accident threatens to destroy the remaining family, as each retreats to grieve in their own way. An unexpected visitor allows them to make the journey, quite literally, to the other side of remorse.You can tell this is not a Hollywood film because for the first 30 minutes, nothing happens. Giovanni works, comes home, cooks, runs, makes love to his wife, engages with his children while giving them their space. It is all very naturalistic and convincing, but there is no drama. Suddenly, a small item is snatched in the market, a car horn is blown - small, incidental fragments that are portents of the end of everyone's life in this family as they know it. Tomorrow, they will all be someone else.And so Andrea dies and the grief kicks in. But they get better. The film engages you by creating multi-dimensional, charming yet flawed characters who we believe in and so care for when their world gets turned upside down. What happens to them you already know; how it happens is what keeps you watching. I enjoyed it without feeling the need to offer up tears; I felt the death as a sadness rather than a tragedy. This will not be everyone's cup of tea as a film, but the small moments that constitute our lives are faithfully represented, and the continuous montage of patients in Giovanni's office provides humour and pathos. This was my first Moretti film. There is enough here to bring me back.

This is a well crafted film. The actors are good, especially the women. However, the script is less than inspired. In the first part of the movie we are introduced to Nanni Moretti, a happily married psychiatrist with two teen-aged children, a daughter and a son. Then the son dies in an accident. Given that scenario, in the normal course of events you would expect: despair, denial, guilt, what ifs, marital difficulties, the questioning of life goals, and so forth. And that is exactly what you get. The ending did supply some ambiguity. Just when you though the family was on the road to acceptance and coming back together, they are seen walking on the beach with each one going in a different direction. Nanni's dilemma with staying in his job is nicely set up by several scenes showing what he has to deal with as a psychiatrist. If what is presented is a typical cross section of patients, then it would seem inevitable that a major life crisis would precipitate the shakedown in Nanni's professional life. In fact Nanni was showing some signs of feeling ineffective in being able to help his patients before the tragedy. After having seen what it is like from the other side of the couch, I came away from this movie wondering how a psychiatrist can avoid early burnout.With scenes like the family's last viewing of the body in a casket before it is sealed, it is hard to avoid getting wrapped up in the tragedy that befalls this family, but the emotional investment did not pay off for me in the end. Movies with a similar theme (the loss of a child) that I found more interesting and engaging are, "Ordinary People" and "In the Bedroom."