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
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09/09/09
Not even the momentary participation extraordinaire of a vertically challenged famous filmmaker self-exiled from the United States can save this phony pseudo-drama from its final collapse into a heap of inconsequence and male vanity.
06/24/09
Unfortunately, Quiet Chaos can’t help but become heated, and a ridiculous climax sabotages much of the emotional weight.
06/25/09
Quiet Chaos jerkily shifts tones, from oddly comic ... to blunt. And by blunt I mean an indiscreet, in-your-face sex scene that turns the viewer from observer to pervy voyeur.
06/26/09
[Nanni] Moretti makes this 'study' in despair a naggingly neutral, at times borderline coy experience.
07/22/09
It's watchable and fluent, but there is something narcissistic and conceited in Moretti's performance.
10/24/08
Top CriticFor 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
Moretti gives his usual excellent performance. But the script throws in too many other elements while it should be concentrating on the father-daughter relationship.
06/26/09
The 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
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