The Son's Room

The Son's Room
Original film poster
Directed by	Nanni Moretti
Produced by	Angelo Barbagallo Nanni Moretti
Written by	Nanni Moretti
Starring	Nanni Moretti Laura Morante Jasmine Trinca Giuseppe Sanfelice Silvio Orlando Sofia Vigliar Claudio Santamaria Stefano Accorsi Simona Lisi
Music by	Nicola Piovani
Distributed by	Sacher Film
Release dates	9 March 2001
Running time	99 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

The Son's Room (Italian: La stanza del figlio) is a 2001 Italian film directed, written, produced by and starring 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.

Plot

The film tells a very raw and realistic story of the death of a teenager in a middle-class Italian family. Giovanni has a troubled relationship with his seventeen-year-old son Andrea and would like to make up with him by jogging. Andrea, annoyed by the presence of his father, accepts the invitation, but on the very first day of jogging, Giovanni has a firm commitment. The second day Giovanni has to cancel the jogging with Andrea due to an urgent call from one of his patients. Andrea goes with friends to go scuba diving instead. Unable to make it back to the surface in time after following a fish into a cave, Andrea dies, without being able to be reconciled with his father. Giovanni, with his wife Paola, is no longer able to console himself for the loss of his very young son and he can only give him a final farewell in the funeral home along with all the other young friends of Andrea.

Cast

Nanni Moretti as Giovanni
Laura Morante as Paola
Jasmine Trinca as Irene
Giuseppe Sanfelice as Andrea
Sofia Vigliar as Arianna
Renato Scarpa as Headmaster
Roberto Nobile as Priest
Paolo De Vita as Luciano's Father
Roberto De Francesco as Record Store Clerk
Claudio Santamaria as Dive Shop Clerk
Antonio Petrocelli as Enrico
Lorenzo Alessandri as Filippo's Father
Alessandro Infusini as Matteo
Silvia Bonucci as Carla
Marcello Bernacchini as Luciano

Accolades

The Son's Room was the winner of the Palme d'Or at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.^[1] The film was Italy's submission to the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but it wasn't nominated. The film also appears in Empire's 2008 list of the 500 greatest movies of all time at number 480.^[2]

Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian, included the film in its list of ten 'Best films of the noughties' (2000-2009).^[3]

References

↑ "Festival de Cannes: The Son's Room". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-10-17.
↑ The 500 Greatest Movie of All Time
↑ Bradshaw, Peter (25 December 2009). "Best films of the noughties". The Guardian. Retrieved 1 January 2015.

External links

The Son's Room at the Internet Movie Database
Cannes profile

Films directed by Nanni Moretti

Films directed	I Am Self Sufficient (1976) Ecce bombo (1978) Sogni d'oro (1981) Bianca (1984) The Mass Is Ended (1985) Red Wood Pigeon (1989) Caro diario (1993) April (1998) The Son's Room (2001) The Caiman (2006) We Have a Pope (2011) Mia Madre (2015)

Shorts	La sconfitta (1973) Pâté de bourgeois (1973) Come parli frate? (1974) La cosa (1990) L'unico paese al mondo (1994) Opening Day of Close-Up (1996) The Last Customer (2002) Il grido d'angoscia dell'uccello predatore (20 tagli d'Aprile) (2003) Diario di uno spettatore (2007)

Palme d'Or winning films

1930s 1940s	Union Pacific – Cecil B. DeMille (1939) Iris and the Lieutenant – Alf Sjöberg (1946) The Lost Weekend – Billy Wilder (1946) The Red Meadows – Bodil Ipsen and Lau Lauritzen, Jr. (1946) Brief Encounter – David Lean (1946) María Candelaria – Emilio Fernández (1946) Neecha Nagar – Chetan Anand (1946) The Turning Point – Fridrikh Ermler (1946) La Symphonie Pastorale – Jean Delannoy (1946) The Last Chance – Leopold Lindtberg (1946) Men Without Wings – František Čáp (1946) Rome, Open City – Roberto Rossellini (1946) The Third Man – Carol Reed (1949)

1950s	Miss Julie – Alf Sjöberg (1951) Miracle in Milan – Vittorio De Sica (1951) The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice – Orson Welles (1952) Two Cents Worth of Hope – Renato Castellani (1952) The Wages of Fear – Henri-Georges Clouzot (1953) Gate of Hell – Teinosuke Kinugasa (1954) Marty – Delbert Mann (1955) The Silent World – Jacques Cousteau and Louis Malle (1956) Friendly Persuasion – William Wyler (1957) The Cranes Are Flying – Mikhail Kalatozov (1958) Black Orpheus – Marcel Camus (1959)

1960s	La Dolce Vita – Federico Fellini (1960) The Long Absence – Henri Colpi (1961) Viridiana – Luis Buñuel (1961) O Pagador de Promessas – Anselmo Duarte (1962) The Leopard – Luchino Visconti (1963) The Umbrellas of Cherbourg – Jacques Demy (1964) The Knack ...and How to Get It – Richard Lester (1965) A Man and a Woman – Claude Lelouch (1966) The Birds, the Bees and the Italians – Pietro Germi (1966) Blowup – Michelangelo Antonioni (1967) if.... – Lindsay Anderson (1969)

1970s	MASH – Robert Altman (1970) The Go-Between – Joseph Losey (1971) The Working Class Goes to Heaven – Elio Petri (1972) The Mattei Affair – Francesco Rosi (1972) The Hireling – Alan Bridges (1973) Scarecrow – Jerry Schatzberg (1973) The Conversation – Francis Ford Coppola (1974) Chronicle of the Years of Fire – Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina (1975) Taxi Driver – Martin Scorsese (1976) Padre Padrone – Paolo and Vittorio Taviani (1977) The Tree of Wooden Clogs – Ermanno Olmi (1978) Apocalypse Now – Francis Ford Coppola (1979) The Tin Drum – Volker Schlöndorff (1979)

1980s	All That Jazz – Bob Fosse (1980) Kagemusha – Akira Kurosawa (1980) Man of Iron – Andrzej Wajda (1981) Missing – Costa-Gavras (1982) Yol – Yılmaz Güney and Şerif Gören (1982) The Ballad of Narayama – Shohei Imamura (1983) Paris, Texas – Wim Wenders (1984) When Father Was Away on Business – Emir Kusturica (1985) The Mission – Roland Joffé (1986) Under the Sun of Satan – Maurice Pialat (1987) Pelle the Conqueror – Bille August (1988) Sex, Lies, and Videotape – Steven Soderbergh (1989)

1990s	Wild at Heart – David Lynch (1990) Barton Fink – Coen brothers (1991) The Best Intentions – Bille August (1992) Farewell My Concubine – Chen Kaige (1993) The Piano – Jane Campion (1993) Pulp Fiction – Quentin Tarantino (1994) Underground – Emir Kusturica (1995) Secrets & Lies – Mike Leigh (1996) Taste of Cherry – Abbas Kiarostami (1997) The Eel – Shohei Imamura (1997) Eternity and a Day – Theodoros Angelopoulos (1998) Rosetta – Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (1999)

2000s	Dancer in the Dark – Lars von Trier (2000) The Son's Room – Nanni Moretti (2001) The Pianist – Roman Polanski (2002) Elephant – Gus Van Sant (2003) Fahrenheit 9/11 – Michael Moore (2004) The Child – Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (2005) The Wind That Shakes the Barley – Ken Loach (2006) 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days – Cristian Mungiu (2007) The Class – Laurent Cantet (2008) The White Ribbon – Michael Haneke (2009)

2010s	Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives – Apichatpong Weerasethakul (2010) The Tree of Life – Terrence Malick (2011) Amour – Michael Haneke (2012) Blue Is the Warmest Colour – Abdellatif Kechiche (with actresses Adèle Exarchopoulos and Léa Seydoux) (2013) Winter Sleep – Nuri Bilge Ceylan (2014) Dheepan – Jacques Audiard (2015)

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