The Son's Room
A psychoanalyst's settled family life collapses when his teenage son dies in a diving accident, and the therapist cannot contain his own grief.
Cannes Palme d'Or 2001 won
In a quiet Italian town, Giovanni works as a psychoanalyst, listening daily to his patients while his own family life feels stable and content. When his teenage son dies in a diving accident, the household is thrown into shock, and Giovanni, his wife and daughter each struggle to carry on.
The film observes what happens when a clinician trained to hold other people's pain finds his own grief beyond containment; his professional composure fails, his attention to patients falters, and the family must slowly find a way to keep living. Awarded the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 2001.
Details
- 2001
- Italy
- Italian
- Film
for therapists and clients