The Son's Room
Release Date:
January 25, 2002
Limited release
Winner of the prestigious Palme d’Or at the 2001 Cannes Festival and Italy’s official submission in the Best Foreign Language Film category for the Academy Awards, The Son’s Room is an examination of how families deal with grief in the aftermath of the loss of a loved one.
Nanni Moretti, who also directed and co-wrote the film, stars as a Giovanni, psychiatrist living an idyllic life in an Italian seaside town with his wife and his two intelligent children. They are a comfortable and close-knit family, but suddenly their tranquility is shattered when son Andrea is killed in a freak diving accident. Unable to properly treat patients, Giovanni quits practicing and his wife withdraws into herself. Also affected by grief, his daughter begins to have trouble with her performance in school. When the family discovers a letter sent to Andrea by an unknown girl, they arrange to meet her in the hope that they can heal.
The Son’s Room has already played at several festivals and could also be seen during the summer of 2001 as part of a perspective on Moretti’s films, but Miramax will also distribute it formally in early 2002. If the movie picks up an Academy nod, awareness may be a bit higher for it than for your typical foreign film so it has definite expansion possibilities. (Kim Hollis/BOP)
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