La stanza del figlio, Nanni Moretti, Italy , 2001

Film series: El Psicoanálisis en el Diván (Psychoanalysis on the couch)

La stanza del figlio 

Presented by Antonio Rey, and by Paula de Felipe and Vicente Barrachina,members of the Cinema Club of the University. 

Synopsis:

The Son’s Room that tells the story in a small city of Northern Italy of a family formed by the parents (Giovanni and Paola) and two teenage children: Irene, the older, and Andrea, the younger. Giovanni is a psychoanalyst. In his consultation room, placed next to his apartment, his patients entrust him their neurosis that contrast with the calm of his own existence. His life is ruled by a series of habits or interests: reading, listening to music, isolating himself and becoming himself exhausted doing long races over the city. One Sunday morning, a patient calls Giovanni for an emergency. He cannot jogging with his son, as he had proposed him; Andrea goes for a dive with his friends, but he won’t come back…