The Son's Room

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The 100 best films of the 21st century
Gangsters, superheroes, schoolkids, lovers, slaves, peasants, techies, Tenenbaums and freefalling astronauts – they’re all here in our countdown of cinema’s best movies since 2000

Peter Bradshaw, Cath Clarke, Andrew Pulver and Catherine Shoard

13, Sep, 2019 @5:00 AM

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A decade of Cannes winners - and the films that should have won
Peter Bradshaw: I would never have awarded the Palme d'Or to the awful Dancer in the Dark. But the jury got it spot on with Nanni Moretti's deeply-moving The Son's Room

Peter Bradshaw

10, May, 2011 @11:04 AM

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Best films of the noughties No 6: The Son's Room

Peter Bradshaw: This Palme d'Or-winning family drama, written, directed and acted in by Nanni Moretti, is miraculous in its simplicity and emotional power

Peter Bradshaw

25, Dec, 2009 @12:00 AM

Film of the week: The Son's Room

Italian satirist Nanni Moretti has crafted a serious fable about family bereavement. Peter Bradshaw is moved to tears

Peter Bradshaw

15, Feb, 2002 @4:42 AM

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The Son's Room review – brilliantly affecting drama of the pain of bereavement
This beautiful film really is a very accomplished piece of work from Moretti, superbly acted, refreshingly direct and blessed with an ingenious, unexpected final act

Peter Bradshaw

15, Feb, 2002 @1:02 AM

Nanni Moretti

Actor, writer and director Nanni Moretti has often been described as the Italian Woody Allen because of his sharp comedies, but he took a move in a very different direction with The Son's Room, a moving drama about a family coming to terms with a bereavement, which won this year's Palme d'Or at Cannes. Before a screening of the film at the LFF, Moretti talked about his career and working methods and revealed the part he played in the decline of Jennifer Beals...

17, Nov, 2001 @3:46 PM

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