CERN CineClub - The son's room

Thursday 17 Sept 2009, 20:30 → 22:05 Europe/Zurich

500/1-001 - Main Auditorium (CERN)

The son's room (directed by Nanni Moretti, Italy, 2001) This is the harrowing story of a once tight-knit, happy family having to come to terms with a devastating loss and get on with their lives. Moretti plays Giovanni, a happily married man with two wonderful children; he is also a psychoanalyst with a group of patients both hysterical and sad. He enjoys running through the streets of Ancona, but when he opts to make a rare house call one Sunday morning instead of going for a run with his son, tragedy strikes, and he can't help blaming himself and his choices. He starts having trouble listening to and caring about his patients, and he also distances himself from his wife. One of the underlying themes of the film is the need to make and break scheduled appointments that threaten to overtake one's life with its potential for compulsive obsession; as Giovanni dreams of past scenes playing out differently, he can't help but think that if he had rearranged his schedule based on the importance and necessity of his appointments, his idyllic world might not have been turned upside down.