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Three Colours: Blue
Why this pick
Like The Son's Room, it observes bereavement through small routines and emotional restraint, following a parent’s attempt to withdraw from pain with quiet, luminous precision.
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MOVIE2001 1h 39m ITA
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Why this pick
A grave, intricately structured study of a community and its parents after an unthinkable loss, matching Moretti’s compassionate attention to grief’s moral and domestic aftershocks.
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In the Bedroom
Why this pick
Another unsparing family portrait in which parental grief unsettles marriage, identity, and daily life; its controlled naturalism makes the emotional ruptures especially piercing.
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Still Walking
Why this pick
A family gathering gradually exposes the enduring absence of a son. Its gentle surface, accumulated detail, and nuanced parental tensions strongly echo Moretti’s intimate realism.
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Secret Sunshine
Why this pick
This demanding, compassionate grief drama follows a mother confronting loss and the limits of consolation, with the same interest in how tragedy reshapes one's relation to others.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
In Ancona, Giovanni is a therapist, whose 17-year-old son Andrea is accused of stealing a rare Ammonoidea fossil from his school. Andrea is suspended and protests his innocence, but later confesses to his mother Paola he and his friend stole it as a prank, and intended to return it before it broke. Giovanni and Andrea make plans to go jogging together, but Giovanni is called to the distant home of a patient who is severely distressed about a possible cancer diagnosis. Instead, Andrea goes scuba diving with a friend and swims into an underwater cave, where he accidentally drowns. Giovanni, Paola and their daughter Irene are left to mourn. Giovanni investigates the diving equipment model and becomes suspicious that Andrea's was defective, but Paola reminds him the verdict was that it was functioning properly. Giovanni, once a distant observer of his patients' struggles, begins having difficulty analyzing them, particularly the one he went to see on the day Andrea died, against whom he shows signs of impatience and hostility.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Nanni Moretti
Giovanni
Laura Morante
Paola
Jasmine Trinca
Irene
Giuseppe Sanfelice
Andrea
Silvio Orlando
Oscar - a Patient
Stefano Accorsi
Tommaso - a Patient
Eleonora Danco
a Patient
Roberto Nobile
Priest