Some of the plot is implausible, yet the core ideas resonate richly, and the characters' behaviour is psychologically intriguing.
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05/22/09
Quiet Chaos (2009)
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Reviews Counted:34
Fresh:26
Rotten:8
Average Rating:6.3/10
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 CriticIt's subtle stuff with an appealing lack of contrivance and there is something very natural about its resolution.
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 Critic[Moretti delivers] a complex and complete performance...
05/22/09
Top CriticA respectable and always watchable film about bereavement, well acted and well made.
05/22/09
Top CriticIt's like a psychological study, but performed with grace and humanity
05/16/09
Top CriticMoretti's imposing frame and presence form the heart of this unexpected tale about love, relationships and loss.
05/15/09
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 CriticGrimaldi's elegantly understated film is a Groundhog Day of grief suppressed and life suspended.
10/20/08
It's watchable and fluent, but there is something narcissistic and conceited in Moretti's performance.
10/24/08
Top CriticA 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
For a far superior meditation on bereavement, better to turn to Moretti's portrayal of a grieving father in 2002's The Son's Room.
10/24/08
This 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
[Nanni] Moretti makes this 'study' in despair a naggingly neutral, at times borderline coy experience.
07/22/09
But on balance, they're outweighed by some striking and funny moments, and Moretti's immensely charming, reassuring presence.
10/24/08
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
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 CriticQuiet Chaos is understated and restrained, perhaps too much so.
10/24/08
Moretti'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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