La stanza del figlio 2001

Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: The Son's Room addresses both death and life with honesty and respect. Read more

Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: Moretti is interested in simple behavior, captured at a polite but insightful distance, and this quiet, subtly moving drama says more about the qualities that make us human with a whisper than most other movies can say with a shout. Read more

Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: The Son's Room, possesses a quiet, haunting realism, fueled by an excellent script and assured performances all around. Read more

Charles Ealy, Dallas Morning News: It's rare for any movie to be as subtle and touching as The Son's Room. Read more

Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: Nothing in The Son's Room is conventionally sentimental or reassuring. Read more

Stephen Holden, New York Times: A hushed contemplation of the kind of senseless, all-too-frequent tragedy that leaves the survivors reeling and speechless. Read more

Jan Stuart, Newsday: Benefiting from Nicola Pavani's poignant scoring and the telling understatement of Giuseppe Lanci's cinematography, it's a lovely work, nonetheless, a welcome creative departure for a gifted Italian artist. Read more

Chicago Reader: With tender skill, [director] Moretti illuminates Samuel Beckett's familiar summation 'I can't go on--I'll go on.' Read more

Eli Sanders, Seattle Times: We are given characters so gentle and so human that we become instantly fond of them. Read more

Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: A measured, decorous, at times pat film that manages to be quietly moving because it touches on something real. Read more

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Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Moretti ... is the rare common-man artist who's wise enough to recognize that there are few things in this world more complex -- and, as it turns out, more fragile -- than happiness. Read more

Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: While the topic has grown heavier here, [Moretti's] touch has not, and that disparity is precisely what gives the film its sustained poignancy. Read more

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Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: The Son's Room is ... not an interruption in [Moretti's] career, but a leap upward to a spiritual epiphany graced with visual elegance and energy. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: By daring to be honest and unsparing, The Son's Room is meaningful. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Sometimes in a quite ordinary way a director can reach out and touch us. Read more

Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: Delicately distinctive; it's the kind of picture that stirs subterranean rumbles of empathy in us rather than flashy, gushing waves. Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: The best way to see The Son's Room is to know the title and the location of the theater, and that's all. Read more

Peter Howell, Toronto Star: It is in Moretti's nature to never be completely gloomy. Yet in striving for greater seriousness, he has proven himself capable of far more meaningful work that the comedian in him has ever before demonstrated, or admitted to. Read more

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Claudia Puig, USA Today: Stands apart for its raw, quiet emotion and its shattering sense of truth. Read more

J. Hoberman, Village Voice: A movie more to be prescribed than recommended -- as visually bland as a dentist's waiting room, complete with soothing Muzak and a cushion of predictable narrative rhythms. Read more