The Son's Room

#thesonsroom

A female patient talks to psychoanalyst Giovanni from the couch. (0:05)

Giovanni talks to a male patient sitting and facing him. (0:05)

A male patient on the couch recounts a dream "full of symbols." (0:06)

A male patient across Giovanni's desk: "I'm scared of becoming a maniac..."
"I'd take a Valium." (0:12)

Patient Oscar on the couch: "Even if I think about suicide and feel that I may well try again... How is it you can live normally, feel good and still consider killing yourself?" (0:14)

Giovanni's daughter Irene tells her friend Matteo, "You've smoked too many joints!"  (0:16)

A male patient's first encounter with Giovanni: "In my opinion, analysts your own age are the worst."
"How long does the therapy last? Who decides when it ends?" (0:19)

A female patient talks from the couch. Giovanni looks bored. (0:24)

A female patient faces Giovanni across his desk: "My previous analyst was much less distant."
"You're the wrong analyst for me."
Giovanni thinks to himself: "The therapy's over. What will she do? Go to another therapist?" (0:28)

Giovanni makes a house call to Oscar who tells him, "I'm sure it's a tumor." (0:33)

Giovanni learns that his son has died in a diving accident. He interrupts his daughter Irene's basketball game to tell her. He embraces her and her mother Paola. They cry. (0:33)

The family chooses a casket then views Andrea's body. Giovanni and Paola kiss Andrea goodby. Irene, referring to the casket lid, asks to "take it off a second" to see him one last time. The coffin is sealed. (0:38)

Paola screams in bed. (0:41)

A male patient on the couch. (0:45)

A male patient across the desk: "I'd taken three tranquilizers so as not to cause trouble." He tells Giovanni about his sexual activity. (0:46)

A female patient, standing, tells Giovanni, "And I finally spoke to him [husband] about my obsessions... I'm scared that if I fight too much I could become schizophrenic, whatever that means."
Giovanni: "It's only natural to feel this anxiety." (0:48)

Oscar on the couch, having discovered that he really does have a tumor, tells Giovanni he cannot tell his mother because "The idea of losing a son would be too much for her." (0:51)

Giovanni replays events in his mind so his son would not have died. (0:51)

Giovanni and Paola speculate on how Andrea died. (0:54)

At her game Irene picks fights. (0:55)

Funeral mass. (0:56)

With Oscar on the couch Giovanni says, "They often say that the patient's psychological attitude is fundamental in curing illness." (0:59)

Giovanni talks to a colleague (Enrico?) about his anger at Oscar, whom he blames for Andrea's death, interfering with treating him. "What would become of his analysis?"  (1:00)

Paola cries in Andrea's room. (1:04)

Giovanni replays events before Anrea's death again  (1:06)

A male patient faces Giovanni. (1:07)

Irene cries in the changing room. (1:08)

A female patient lies on the couch. Giovanni begins to cry when she talks about her love of children and tells her, "Forgive me." (1:10)

Oscar on the couch. (1:11)

Paola calls Andrea's friend Arianna and cries while telling her of his death. (1:14)

Oscar chooses to sit for the session. He tells Giovanni he "won't be coming again." (1:15)

Giovanni tells Paola regarding his practice: "I'm probably not helping them much right now."
"I no longer have any objectivity." (1:20)

A female patient across his desk, Giovanni tells her, "I can refer you to another analyst. To continue your therapy--." He informs her that he plans to close his practice. (1:21)

A male patient with sexual problems explodes when Giovanni tells him he plans to close his practice. He breaks objects in the office. Giovanni holds him as the patient cries. (1:22)

The family laughs together again. (1:34)

Bereavement | boundaries | countertransference | diazepam | Hypochondriasis | magical thinking | psychoanalysis | psychoanalyst | suicide | tranquilizer

Nanni Moretti, Laura Morante, Jasmine Trinca 2001