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The Son’s Room is a well-acted, respectable drama. It is quiet and understated, examining a family as it deals with grief. The lead feels unable to move forward in his life, which is ironic as he works as a psychiatrist, dealing with the problems of others. Nobody is immune from mental hardship. This story could have been melodramatic, but instead The Son’s Room plays things in a simple, natural way. Characters try to understand the person they’ve lost and what really happened, but it only tangles their feelings. As an examination of sudden tragedy and the effects that has, The Son’s Room is moving and relatable. Overall it’s a solid, workmanlike film, doing what one expects from middlebrow art cinema, even though it achieves little more. Palme d’Or Winners Ranked
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«Forse per lui non era poi così importante, se non ce ne ha mai parlato, no?» «E di cosa ci ha mai parlato, Irene? Eh?» nella mia famiglia, “ti voglio bene” non viene detto mai. forse perché siamo timidi, perché ci piace tenerci i nostri segreti o perché pensiamo che sia come un’ammissione di debolezza, un piccolo sfoggio di una crepa che, come quelle che nota nanni nel film e che gli danno così fastidio, potrebbe mandarci tutti in frantumi. quante cose che non ci siamo detti e che non ci diciamo, e quante cose io ho dovuto tirare fuori di bocca alle persone che amo nei momenti di difficoltà, dove pensare di tenermi fuori dalle questioni sarebbe stata l’unica…
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To lay all my cards on the table, I can’t evaluate this film impartially, knowing that it stole the 2001 Palme d’Or from Mulholland Drive. (Amazingly, Shrek was also in competition that year.) In some ways The Son’s Room almost feels like a reaction against Mulholland Drive, with its straightforward story, its immediate comprehensibility, and its characters whose near-total lack of idiosyncrasy inspires some doubt that I’ll remember much about this movie beyond whatever I note down in my diary today. As material for an emotionally devastating film, few topics have more potential than the unexpected loss of a child. Our protagonist, Italian John Krasinski, is a therapist, meaning his battle with grief will extend to the transference and countertransference…
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For the audience, the story ends where the film ends, but for the protagonists, their lives move forwards and our end is just the beginning for them. Like this, The Son’s Room portrays only the “process”and perhaps this is how a film should be; partly incomplete. Passing of time is cruel but at the same time, it is what heals our pain. I think this is now my favorite film of all time.
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Here we are Stuck by this river You and I Underneath a sky that’s ever falling down, down, down Ever falling down
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The Son’s Room winning Palme d’Or over Mulholland Drive and Piano Teacher is one of the worst moments of the Cannes Film Festival, and after actually seeing it, I think the hate is even more justified. It’s a bloated, forgotten arthouse melodrama that features an atrocious performance from Mr. Moretti himself, and I’m glad he stopped acting in lead after this. The Son’s Room definitely shows potential in its first half, where naturalistic storytelling and gorgeous cinematography put one in the right mind space. It’s only when tragedy strikes, that the story suddenly spins out of control under Moretti’s reign. Almost not a single member of the ensemble has the acting chops to pull off the intricate emotions of grief,…
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The Son’s Room turned out to be this really incredible emotional watch. I was left in a daze after finishing it, honestly. I can’t stop thinking of all the small moments, like writing a letter that you can’t write, the weight put into rewinding a tape, or that night drive, both epic and serene. The repetition of the same things, before and after everything changes. The obsession with turning back time, the obsession with a moment, the obsession with anything that makes you feel closer to that moment, even a specific kind of cheese or music. Ebert says it well: “The Son’s Room won the Palme d’Or, or top prize, at Cannes last year. It was a popular choice – too popular, sniffed some, who objected to its mainstream style and frank sentimentality. Yes, but not all movies can be stark, difficult and obscure. Sometimes in a quite ordinary way a director can reach out and touch us.”
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dark circles and inner unrest. the tremendousness and vastness in the moment of sudden tragedy. the unstoppable break into reality. authentic frames of daily life, then the collapse and disruption that leaves you with a queasy stomach and a big uneasiness. all of this tactfully staged. no pitiful cheap shot, no lazy study of dismay, but serious questions. what does the psychoanalyst do when the crisis hits from outside? pain and impuissance end in a appropriate 10 mins road movie, a drowsy all-nighter, a summer love that gives home, final gestures of tenderness.
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An interesting question was raised early in this movie. “What is your favorite sport, soundwise?” I’d have to say mine is tennis.
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Here we are, stuck by this river. You and I, underneath a sky that’s ever falling down… El enfoque en el duelo que vive cada uno de los personajes me parece precioso. Porque sí creo que existe una belleza en el sentir, incluso en el dolor más fuerte: en la compañía, la transformación, la evolución y la aceptación. Me gusta cómo esta película muestra una cara diferente pero realista. De verdad es bella.
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Mi è piaciuto il film, ma era troppo frettoloso e non ho capito il vero significato a parte il lutto.
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belo filme, bem comovente (fun fact acabei de descobrir que esse filme ganhou a palma de ouro em cima de mulholland drive e a professora de piano 😬)
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IIkezar 8 月 18, 2026
A pesar del duro golpe, vale mucho la pena compartir la experiencia con esta familia que desborda en esa naturalidad, que por ejemplo no encontré en “El Final de Oak Street”.
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Strangely serene, The Son’s Room follows recently bereaved father, Giovanni Sermonti, in an exploration into parental mourning. Morose tracking shots are interrupted with fragmented flashbacks where he tortures himself with regret over his quotidian yet mortal decisions on the day of his sons death. Brian Eno’s ‘By This River’ marches this film through its emotional peak to its close. Instrumentally, it reminds me distinctly of ‘Call it Fate, Call it Karma’ by The Strokes and leaks through a cyclical send…
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Non è roba mia
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Aparte de encantarme este tipo de dramas familiares, la escena final es perfecta; esa sensación de vacío que sientes cuando ves que todo el mundo sigue con su vida, aún cuando tú no has superado el duelo.
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A gentle, understated film about a family coping with grief. The film doesn’t overtly resort to sentimentalism.
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Straziata dall’accuratezza con cui viene raccontata una perdita cosi importante e da come viene affrontato il lutto
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Nani je t’aime
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Sirāt sans la techno. Pas le même visionnage qu’avant l’arrivée de l’Héritier dans les pattes. Ça chiale chez le disquaire, ça chiale devant les photos, ça chiale au téléphone, un gros mélo qui tâche, ça fait chialer. Plein de fulgurances d’émotions donc mais aussi le Moretti qui ressemble le moins à un de ses films. C’est juste mais… (je ne citerai pas Godard, suis pas un boloss). L’impression d’avoir été embarqué dans sa propre séance psy et d’avoir imagé sa…
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typa film that leaves you staring at the credits with a empty head
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Creo que esta fue mi primera Moretti, y en su momento no supe apreciarla del todo. Es increíble que hayan pasado tres años ya. Maravillosa.
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vedere questo film dopo aver litigato con il proprio padre fa un altro effetto
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Then suddenly all of them become psychologically distorted, but beside that this movie holds depths but not that deep to make someone shed a tear. More like a “sedih nya” Film instead of actually crying
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Fferrki 8 月 9, 2026
straziante
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shout out to Parrocchia Santa Maria dell’Arco per averlo proiettato
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יפה, אבל הייתה חסרה נשמה במקומות שהכי דרשו את זה. אי אפשר לעשות סרט על המרחב הדק שבין אקזיסטנציאליזם לניהיליזם, אלוהים ופסיכואנליזה מבלי להדגיש את האומנות דרך המדיום, וזה חטאו של הסרט.
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i just really understood everything about this movie, every shot was intentional and purposeful and a way to show how each family member dealt with their emotions and their grief the character of Arianna and her letter to Andrea reminds me of a quote from Me and Earl and the Dying Girl where Mr. McCarthy (Jon Bernthal) talks about how even after someone dies you can keep learning about them and in a way the story of their life can continue to…
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Because of this movie, whenever I hear Brian Eno, all I think about is premature death and wanting to curl up in a ball on the floor sobbing and wanting to die
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PALME D’OR 2001
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La stanza del figlio di Nanni Moretti mette a nudo l’essere umano, le sue fragilità e esplora i modi diversi che ogni persona adotta nelľ affrontare una grave perdita. Tutto ciò lo fa con una delicatezza degna di uno dei più grandi maestri del nostro cinema e soprattutto senza cadere nei cliché malinconici messi giusto per far piangere lo spettatore. Il pre-finale di questo film andrebbe fatto vedere nelle scuole.
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جيوفاني دكتور نفسي ناجح، عايش مع عائلته حياة مستقرة، يصير لهم حدث مفاجئ يقلب حياتهم كاملة، الفيلم واقعي وهادئ بشكل يعور ويحزن، يوضح كيف تتصرف العائلة بعد حدث صعب جدًا، وأغلب المشاهد تصرفاتهم فيها واقعية لأن بالحياة الواقعية الأشخاص بيتصرفون بنفس هاذي الطريقة بدون مبالغة.
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Muy bueno Entretenida, lo suficientemente dramática como para no llorar. Sin duda conmovedora. Me gustó la historia, simple, cálida y en partes cercana y hasta podía sentirse real, en función a esto las interpretaciones, buenos papeles y actuaciones acorde nada de otro mundo. Buen guión, y me gustó la música. El final con la Arianna medio raro, básico pero cumple con los típicos finales de peliculas que no te hacen llorar.
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It’s really nice. Exemplary, even. However, I feel like it’s too smooth to strike gold. The portrayal of an average family struck by tragedy is believable, empathetic, and all too predictable and familiar—not in the situations themselves, but in the cinematic language used to portray such heavy subjects. Thus, the movie reminds us that it’s just a piece of fiction, so we could remain all too comfortable.
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muy buena pelicula me gusto le doy 3 y medio de 5
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Ttomasdeve 8 月 6, 2026
El trabajo del duelo es un camino de descubrimiento de la luz de las estrellas muertas. Ese plano final!
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A film about grief that really stands out by not being either repugnant or especially staggering, but by detailing a grounded process of living with tragedy. There’s very effective sound design that pays attention to the harshness of certain textures like a ball against a court, the replaying of a song, waves crashing and the same with certain visual motifs, especially the theme park cage/coffin thrashing the dad figure around. Very nearly achieves quite a moving scene, after the family meet…
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gran primera hora
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Even the psychoanalyst who helps others through their psychological struggles finds himself unable to.help himself when faced with his own grief…💔
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what’s there to say really… Now where he is, you, red light, do not say, and yet you shed light; and sighing about the inanimate countryside is the cricket; and my mother combs her hair in the mirror, as ancient a custom as your light, thinking about her lifeless son.
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super triste et beau à voir
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Mouais
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Un film di Koreeda travestito da film di Moretti, che riesce in tutto quello che non riesce ad Hamnet
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PPeTe_rm 8 月 3, 2026
Me alegro de haber visto “Caro Diario” (1993), porque a pesar de no haber conectado tanto con ella, refleja acertadamente las sensibilidades que luego se despliegan con maestría en el trabajo de Nanni Moretti. “The Son’s Room”, como ejemplo de ello, nos muestra a un Moretti delicado, tierno e intelectual—precisamente como se le veía en “Caro Diario”—, pero viéndose frente a una gran e inesperada tragedia. Duele verlo en este contexto, pero conmueve con una profunda cinta que procesa las…
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Visto no computador. 10.0
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Guardo questo film pochi giorni dopo aver visto Odissea di Nolan e penso a quanto sia di gran lunga preferibile un film lento di novanta minuti che un trailer di tre ore. Questo film sa respirare assieme ai personaggi, che vivono come identità a se stanti, non come burattini a servizio della trama. L’unico difetto che ho trovato è che la pretesa di realismo visivo e narrativo viene talvolta smentita da dialoghi forzati o performance non impeccabili, soprattutto dagli attori più giovani. Ma va bene, a parte piccole sbavature, un film sincero che mi ha emozionato.
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soz but the performances weren’t good enough to build the emotional connection the movie relies on
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diverso dai suoi altri film
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kind of falls short compared to his other works
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Couldn’t bring myself to watch this one for years because I expected it to be pretty lame. Just another little European family drama, I thought… I was already preparing myself to trash the jury at Cannes for giving it the Golden Palm. Wrong! Shame on me. Yes, it is a little European family drama, but a great one. Well written, touching and very on point. I really felt it.
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Semplice, struggente. Un film che penso mi rimarrà in testa per un po’, ho trovato piacevole la goffaggine di Moretti nel recitare il suo ruolo, rende il tutto più reale. Molte scene mi hanno portato a pensare e ragionare, a come avrei reagito io in una situazione così.
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eles levaram os a frança
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Como é que um filme pode ser contido e de uma ternura a explodir, a explodir? Elegante e sóbrio? Como é que pode ser trágico e de uma beleza sem fim, sem fim? Como é que pode ter tamanha sensibilidade? Como? É ver, ver e acabar com eles ao pé do mar (sono felice solo in mare) a despedirem-se Dele. Here we are stuck by this river you and i underneath a sky that’s ever falling down down waiting here always failing to remember why we came came I wonder why we came
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my first nanni moretti film; i thought he did a great job! i liked how it depicts grief as a process, and that, by the end of the film, the family is still kind of stuck at the starting point of said process. a bit melodramatic, but i think it does what it needed to do. shoutout menton…
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j’ai ressenti chaque instant leur peine et elle m’a emplie d’un océan de tristesse. le deuil c’est dur, c’est personnel, ça se traverse de mille et une façons et ce film le traduit à merveille.
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LLa_Cortelletti 7 月 25, 2026
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Not gripping but everything is in the air
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É simples, quando você acha que não vai te atingir o choro vem. Desunião familiar mesmo numa mesma casa mesmo com a mesma dor. Bom filmes sempre terminam com uma boa trilha.
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Some references that deepen the film’s intellectual, literary, aesthetic context #freudmourningandmelancholia #bollastheshadowoftheobject #leopardithecanti #bythisriver #antonionilavventura @filmkuratoru
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Your Palme win doesn’t age particularly well when the other films in competition are Mulholland Dr. and The Piano Teacher. Moretti got away with it for sure, but this isn’t bad.
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Todo mundo ri, ri, mas ninguém sabe como tá a mente do palhaço, o mesmo vale pro Giovanni, cuida de todo mundo, mas ninguém ajuda ele quando ele mais precisa, um filme cortante
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Será que mínimas decisões ou mínimas ações mudariam nosso destino para sempre? Essa foi minha duvida assim q acabou e os créditos subindo.
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Grazie Nanni, adesso si che devo andare in terapia.
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Avere un rapporto più rilassato con il mondo Sentire
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“Tommaso, lei pensa di non meritarsi niente, perciò ogni volta che le capita qualcosa di bello o qualcosa che la emoziona lei si spaventa” SONO DEVASTATA, ho sentito tutto il loro dolore (laura torna a fare i film con nanni ti prego)
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This movie is a sad but beautiful exploration of grief. With great acting and clever metaphors, I felt it truly captures the stages of loss. Even though the pacing is slow, it feels natural for the story. By the end, it feels like we’ve shared their grief, leaving us looking as lost and wandering as they do.
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Me sobrepasa el duelo de estos personajes. Y cuando por fin encuentran una meta o algo con lo que sentirse realizados porque les acerca a eso que han perdido, recuerdo lo que era el acabar y volver a sentir ese vacío.
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Ne faites pas de plongée
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emozionante senza mai scadere nella banalità. ogni mio commento sarebbe veramente superfluo.
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meritava di vincere la Palme D’Or al posto di muholland drive e piano teacher? Io non lo so, ma ridurlo ad un “cheesy art house movie” come ho letto spesso è quasi offensivo. Moretti può piacere o meno, come regista e attore, ma penso sinceramente che questo film sia una delle rappresentazioni più realistiche di lutto e che il tema viene trattato in maniera incredibilmente delicata e sofferente. Il film non è movimentato, ovviamente, ma in questi 100 minuti non…
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Oggi è diverso, oggi ho solo voglia di piangere, piangerei tutta la vita
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静かな語り口で、誠実さを感じる作品だが、物足りないという感想を持った。「息子の死と遺された家族」というテーマは、少し荷が重過ぎたのではないだろうか？ 「家族の悲しみ」は描写されていたように思う。しかし、「喪失を抱えた人間」が描かれていたかと考えた場合、私の心には届かないものがあった。乱暴に言ってしまえば、悲しみを描いただけで終わっており、踏み込みが足りない。 「息子の死」という出来事を受けて、遺された家族がどう生きるのかが見たかった。
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This winning the Palme d’Or over Mulholland Drive and The Man Who Wasn’t There (or heck even Shrek!!!) is just wild. [Watched for the Screen Drafts podcast 21st Century Palme D’Or Winners with Robert Daniels and Eric Darling]
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Ccinemathequeqc 5 月 19, 2026
Cycle – Palmes d’or
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Là où le sujet pouvait apporter une attente de pathos convenu et plat, Moretti prend le parti de la sobriété absolue. Par sa mise en scène et surtout son montage, il confronte deux modes de vie séparés par l’événement le plus tragique qu’il soit, la mort d’un enfant. Mais cette sobriété ne cache pas sa magnificence : le faux cynisme de Moretti fait au contraire exploser toutes ses craintes et angoisses. Le point le plus important du film (et le plus…
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TTJ 12 月 7, 2021
for FCLT 340
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“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. Because all of these stages are reflected in the clearly seen details of everyday life, the effect is very touching. The film has been written and directed…
- Synopsis
- A psychoanalyst and his family go through profound emotional trauma when their son dies in a scuba diving accident.
- Director
- Nanni Moretti
- Writer
- Linda Ferri, Nanni Moretti, Heidrun Schleef
- Studio
- Sacher Film, Bac Films, StudioCanal, RAI Cinema
- Country
- Italy, France
- Language
- Italian, Latin
- Year
- 2001
- Runtime
- 99 mins
- France17 May 2001
- USA09 Mar 2001
- France28 Apr 2001
- South Korea02 Nov 2001
- Czechia06 Dec 2001
- Switzerland23 May 2001
- Ireland15 Feb 2002
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