It's like a psychological study, but performed with grace and humanity
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05/16/09
Quiet Chaos (2009)
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Reviews Counted:33
Fresh:26
Rotten:7
Average Rating:6.4/10
Consensus: An understated and thoughtful insight into grief and despair, with a stellar turn from Nanni Moretti.
Runtime: 1 hr 45 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
US Box Office: $0
Synopsis: Nanni Moretti stars in and co-wrote this moving Italian drama about grief. Pietro (Moretti) has just lost his wife, and he is left alone with their young daughter (Blu Yoshimi). He promises the... [More]
Starring: Nanni Moretti, Valeria Golino, Isabella Ferrari, Alessandro Gassman
Director: Antonello Grimaldi
Reviews for Quiet Chaos
Top CriticA respectable and always watchable film about bereavement, well acted and well made.
05/22/09
Top Critic[Moretti delivers] a complex and complete performance...
05/22/09
Top CriticTouching and sentimental in equal measure, Quiet Chaos exhibits many traits that fans will recognise from Moretti's own films as director, such as Caro Diario (1993) and The Son's Room (2001).
05/22/09
Top CriticQuiet Chaos is an apt description for the emotional state of Nanni Moretti's grieving widower Pietro, in a film whose central theme is grief, but that plays out with a mix of humour and acceptance
05/16/09
Top CriticSome of the plot is implausible, yet the core ideas resonate richly, and the characters' behaviour is psychologically intriguing.
05/22/09
Top CriticIt's subtle stuff with an appealing lack of contrivance and there is something very natural about its resolution.
05/22/09
Top CriticMoretti's imposing frame and presence form the heart of this unexpected tale about love, relationships and loss.
05/15/09
Top CriticThe film, while uneven -- sometimes too on the nose, sometimes anecdotal and diffuse -- is generally absorbing, thanks mostly to the quality of the acting.
06/26/09
Top CriticGrimaldi's elegantly understated film is a Groundhog Day of grief suppressed and life suspended.
10/20/08
Grimaldi, Moretti and their co-screenwriters have cunningly opened up the narrative cinematically.
03/03/08
Quiet Chaos feels thin and, especially towards the end, increasingly implausible. All the same, Moretti’s simpatico screen persona just about carries it.
10/24/08
A thoughtful portrait of the purgatory of grief that prefers small incidences and exchanges over grand gestures of sentiment and revelation. It’s sad – but never cloying.
10/24/08
Quiet Chaos is understated and restrained, perhaps too much so.
10/24/08
Beautifully modulated, fluidly told film expresses pain with warm understatement.
10/18/08
Top CriticQuiet Chaos has strength and insight about the experiences that cause us to change direction in life.
05/22/09
Top CriticThis is a slow-burning, very well acted film that contains, almost disconcertingly, a graphic sex scene, a strange star-cameo very late on, and something close to a Hollywood ending.
10/24/08
Moretti, present in nearly every scene, like an open wound, is ineffably empathetic.
10/24/08
Top CriticThe boldest stroke in Nanni Moretti’s Quiet Chaos is in what it doesn’t do, rather than what it does.
10/24/08
Top CriticMoretti's performance -- unusually for an actor whose chief trait is sardonic superiority - mines a vein of self-doubt and frail desperation that, together with his tender relationship with his daughter, gives Quiet Chaos a broad human touch.
10/18/08
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