The Son’s Room
Directed by Nanni Moretti.
Starring Nanni Moretti, Laura Morante.
Every now and then I see a film and wonder why the hell they made it. What I sometimes experience as boredom others call depth. What I sometimes interpret as wooden acting others interpret as profound. This is one such film. It won the Palme D’Or at the Cannes Film Festival last year — of course, the judges were wrong.
The Son’s Room is an Italian film, written, directed and starring Nanni Moretti (Caro Diario, Aprile). It explores the grief of a family whose teenage son dies unexpectedly. So, a quick synopsis really would be: meet family, son dies, everyone is sad, film ends. If this sounds like your thing, and it seems to have been at Cannes last year, go see it.
The ReelBuzz: A bit of a yawn actually.
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