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The Son's Room (Italian: La stanza del figlio) is a 2001 Italian film directed, written and produced by Nanni Moretti. It depicts the psychological effects on a family and their life after the death of their son. It was filmed in and around the city of Ancona, with a cast led by Moretti, Laura Morante and Jasmine Trinca.
Giovanni is fixated on the scene of his son’s death, and like he does with a CD player, he repeats the same music sequel over and over, always the same. He does what so many analysts do with their patients: he turns back to the past, and deprives himself of a future.
The son’s room of the title is now empty and its occupant will never come back. The family is united only by its awareness of this terrible absence. The respective degrees of their pain threaten to torment and overwhelm them forever.
The film presents the Sermonti family and their life before and after the sudden death of their son, Andrea, in a diving accident. Before his death, their family life had run smoothly and uneventfully, with only one hitch. Andrea was accused of having stolen a fossil from his school’s museum collection.
The parents pay attention to issues as they impinge rather than allowing problems to go underground - another sign of a thriving family. The evening after his son's exclusion from school, Giovanni takes Andrea to a meeting between the families concerned.
“The Son’s Room” follows an affluent Italian family through all the stages of grieving. When the teenage son dies in a diving accident, his parents and sister react with instinctive denial, followed by sorrow, anger, the disintegration of their own lives, the picking up of the pieces, and finally a form of acceptance.
The Son's Room (La Stanza del figlio) (2002) An audacious, unexpected, and impressive change of direction after the more scatological, easy-going charm of "Dear Diary" and "Aprile", Italian...
