Stanza del figlio, La (2001)

Réalisateur:

Nanni Moretti

Writers:

Nanni Moretti (writer) and
Linda Ferri (writer)
(suite)

Release Date:

9 mars 2001 (Italy)

Genre:

Drame

Plot:

A psychoanalyst and his family go through profound emotional trauma when their son dies in a scuba diving accident.

Plot Keywords:

Family | Diving | Basketball | Doctor Patient Relationship | Family Tragedy

Awards:

9 wins & 23 nominations

Avis des utilisateurs:

`Son's Room' reminds me why I love character-driven European films.

Ensemble

Nanni Moretti	...	Giovanni
Laura Morante	...	Paola
Jasmine Trinca	...	Irene
Giuseppe Sanfelice	...	Andrea
Sofia Vigliar	...	Arianna
Renato Scarpa	...	Headmaster
Roberto Nobile	...	Priest
Paolo De Vita	...	Luciano's Father
Roberto De Francesco	...	Record Store Clerk
Claudio Santamaria	...	Dive Shop Clerk
Antonio Petrocelli	...	Enrico
Lorenzo Alessandri	...	Filippo's Father
Alessandro Infusini	...	Matteo
Silvia Bonucci	...	Carla
Marcello Bernacchini	...	Luciano
Alessandro Ascoli	...	Stefano
Stefano Abbati	...	The Patient
Stefano Accorsi	...	The Patient
Toni Bertorelli	...	The Patient (as Tonio Bertorelli)
Dario Cantarelli	...	The Patient
Eleonora Danco	...	The Patient
Claudia Della Seta	...	The Patient
Luisa De Santis	...	The Patient
Silvio Orlando	...	The Patient
Emanuele Lo Nardo	...	Filippo
reste de la distribution par ordre alphabétique:
Noam Morgensztern	...	The Son (voice)

Réalisé par
Nanni Moretti

Scénaristes
Nanni Moretti		(writer)
Linda Ferri		writer
Heidrun Schleef		writer

Produit par
Angelo Barbagallo	....	producer
Federico Fabrizio	....	producer
Vincenzo Galluzzo	....	producer
Lorenzo Luccarini	....	producer
Nanni Moretti	....	producer

Musique originale
Nicola Piovani

Image
Giuseppe Lanci

Montage
Esmeralda Calabria

Création des décors
Giancarlo Basili

Création des costumes
Maria Rita Barbera

Maquillage
Carlo Barucci	....	hair stylist
Gianfranco Mecacci	....	makeup artist

Directeur de production
Fabrizio Amato	....	unit manager
Gianfranco Barbagallo	....	production manager
Chrystelle Robin	....	unit manager

Assistant réalisateur
Loredana Conte	....	assistant director
Andrea Molaioli	....	assistant director

Art Department
Alberto Bonvecchi	....	assistant property master
Roberto Giacomelli	....	property master
Giuseppe Gigante	....	assistant property master
Ermanno Sampaolesi	....	assistant property master
Mauro Venturini	....	property master
Piera Zaganelli	....	assistant set decorator

Technicien du son
Angelo Amatulli	....	boom operator
Damiano Antinori	....	sound assistant
Benni Atria	....	sound editor
Francesca Genevois	....	assistant sound editor
Danilo Moroni	....	sound mixer
Alessandro Zanon	....	sound

Visual Effects
Stefano Ballirano	....	senior digital artist

Camera and Electrical Department
Roberta Allegrini	....	camera operator
Massimo Barbona	....	key grip
Roberto Barbona	....	grip
Simone Barbona	....	grip
Mauro Belli	....	electrician
Roberto Belli	....	gaffer
Leonardo Beltrame	....	electrician
Romualdo Benedetti	....	electrician
Franco Bruni	....	camera operator
Giovanni Canevari	....	steadicam operator
Andrea Collepiccolo	....	assistant camera
Federico Conte	....	electrician
Simone Gambini	....	video assist operator
Giovanni Gebbia	....	steadicam operator
Umberto Montiroli	....	still photographer
Eleonora Patriarca	....	second assistant camera
Roberto Quercetti	....	grip

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Gaia Calderone	....	assistant costumes
Alberta Ceccarelli	....	wardrobe
Germana Melodia	....	assistant costumes

Editorial Department
Pasquale Cuzzupoli	....	color supervisor
Roberto Martucci	....	assistant editor
Angelo Mignogna	....	assistant editor
Carlo Simeoni	....	assistant editor

Music Department
Dieter Moebius	....	composer: song "By This River"
Hans-Joachim Roedelius	....	composer: song "By This River"
Fabio Venturi	....	music scoring engineer

Divers
Cinzia Castania	....	script
Paolo Centore	....	production secretary
Bruno Di Bartolomei	....	production accountant
Crisilde Dominici	....	press agent
Federico Fabrizio	....	production secretary
Vincenzo Galluzzo	....	production secretary
Lorenzo Luccarini	....	production secretary

Production Companies

• Bac Films
• Canal+
• Rai Cinemafiction
• Sacher Film
• Telepiù

Distributors

• A-Film Distribution (2001) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
• A-Film Home Entertainment (200?) (Netherlands) (video)
• Argentina Video Home (Argentina) (video)
• Bac Films
• Cinema Mondo (2001) (Finland) (theatrical)
• Europafilm AS
• First Distributors
• Miramax Films (Canada) (subtitled)
• Miramax Films (USA) (subtitled)
• Momentum Pictures (2001) (UK) (all media)
• Pan Vision Oy (2002) (Finland) (DVD)
• Prokino Filmverleih (Germany)
• Sacher Distribuzione (Italy)
• Spentzos Films (Greece)
• United King Films
• Warner Bros. (Argentina)
• Warner Home Vídeo (Brazil) (DVD)
• Warner Home Vídeo (Brazil) (VHS)
• Warner Italia (2001) (Italy) (DVD)
• Warner Sogefilms A.I.E. (Spain)

Autre(s) titre(s) :

Chambre du fils, La (France)
Giovanni (Italy) (working title)
The Son's Room (International: English title)
Chambre du fils, La (Canada: French title) [fr]

MPAA:

Rated R for language and some sexuality.

Durée:

99 min

Pays:

Italy | France

Langue:

Italien | Latin

Couleur:

Couleur

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Son:

Dolby Digital

Classification:

Portugal:M/12 | Italy:T | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Chile:TE | Finland:K-11 | France:U | Germany:12 | Hong Kong:IIB | Japan:PG-12 | Netherlands:AL | Norway:11 | Peru:PT | Singapore:NC-16 | South Korea:12 | Spain:13 | Sweden:7 | Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) | UK:15 | USA:R

Emplacements De Pelliculage:

Ancona, Marche, Italy

Company:

Bac Films

Anecdotes:

The Latin lines that crop up are from Lucretius' De rerum natura. The full passage reads as follows: "Haec sic pernosces parva perductus opella; namque alid ex alio clarescet nec tibi caeca nox iter eripiet, quin ultima naturai pervideas: ita res accendent lumina rebus. (Lucretius, De Rerum Natura I, 1114-1117) An (old-fashioned) English translation: "These points, if thou wilt ponder, Then, with but paltry trouble led along... For one thing after other will grow clear, Nor shall the blind night rob thee of the road, To hinder thy gaze on Nature's Farthest-forth. Thus things for things shall kindle torches new."

Connexions De Film:

Referenced in Film Geek (2005)

Soundtrack:

By This River

`Son's Room' reminds me why I love character-driven European films.

`Son's Room' reminds me why I love character-driven European films: the pace is slow, the camera lingers on a face longer than an American shot would dare, and the theme is frighteningly simple but almost always universal. In this case, a loving family has lost a son; the grieving process and the letting go are painful and inevitable. The film makes it all as lyrical as could be possible for a grim topic.

The point of view is consistently the psychiatric-professional dad's, who regrets he had not forced his son to run with him rather than go with his friends that fateful Sunday. Dad's sessions with clients frequently mirror his personal family life, before and after the tragedy, adding a melancholy connection between this flawed evaluator of men and his clients. In a dream he tells one of his clients, `I'm just as boring as you are,' certifying that our analyst and the rest of us are neither above nor below the ties that bind humans. Nanni Moretti writes and directs with Jean Renoir's gifted sense of the romance and tragedy of living everyday.

The exaggerated scenes of happy family life before the tragedy, for instance when they lip-synch to tunes during car trips, serve to highlight the unbearably real grief after. Eventually it takes a young outsider to move the characters to another level of reconciliation. Throughout the film the son's room maintains it role as motif to remind that the son, like us, lives in this space for just a short while.

This plot resolution is best expressed by the lyrics on the radio as the family comes to terms with its grief in the final scene

"Here we are stuck by this river/You and I underneath a sky/That's ever falling down, down, down."

This ending fits well the need to get outside grief to beat it at its corrosive game.

`Son's Room' shows that we will be crushed by that sky if we don't take care. The film deservedly won the top prize last year at the Cannes Film Festival.