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"The Son's Room" is wonderful Italian film about a family in difficult circumstances.I noticed that many here tend to love films about good normal people - the people you and I invite to our dinners. Apparently all that quick paced chase and panopticon have tendency of tiring the viewers, and what is better excape from all that than the company of normal folks with their normal problems?
The Son's Room is amazing in its delicate structure - it is perhaps one of the most half-tone and gentle films that I recall in a long time. Yet it is gripping - bravo, Maestro Moretti! You have an incredible humanistic touch with an iron core.
Highly recommended. It is not the film that will compete with the 100 Best Ever, or whatever that list might be, but it is something you will probably not forget all too soon.
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Or . . . "small films". e.g. "A Man and a Woman" is a "small" film.Amazingly enough, some of our greatest US films go there.
"To kill a Mockingbird" Large subject . . . small focus. Normal people, a family in the rural south. Having grown up there, I can assure people reading this that the portrayed world, good and bad, was real.The whole milleu is oft associatd in the USA today with "Chick Flicks". Maybe that is because of "The Bridges of Madison County" which was a "chick flick", beautiful movie, and "small film" all in one. Or maybe something else. Quien sabe.
If one thinks about it, however. "Field of Dreams" is a "small film" which resonates in America. It is strange that Malmoud's corrupted "The Natural" has much less currency with the film public. Had it been left with its original ending, I suspect no one would know it. And for me, in the popular cinema, "River Runs Through it" is the same. Those of us who grew up there . . . well . . . it is a tough film to watch, yet telling all the same.
One of my favouite small films (and no doubt a potential "chick flick") is "Salt on her Skin" which was released in very abridged fashion here as "Desire". It is available now (somewhat abridged) on DVD. I still watch the European tape.
Vic,I saw this almost 2 years ago in Chicago (Talk Cinema Group) and really liked it. The Father was especially good and I found his portrayal of grief very convincing.
The girlfriend was also quite good.
This film had a very limited distribution and you are the first person to mention it to me since I saw it.
Tosh
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