A respectable and always watchable film about bereavement, well acted and well made.
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05/22/09
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 Critic[Moretti delivers] a complex and complete performance...
05/22/09
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 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 CriticMoretti's imposing frame and presence form the heart of this unexpected tale about love, relationships and loss.
05/15/09
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 CriticIt's like a psychological study, but performed with grace and humanity
05/16/09
Top CriticGrimaldi’s sensitive direction, allied to a subtle score by Paolo Buonvino, sharp script and accomplished acting, helps to turn this into an original and complex study of the unpredictability of human foibles and weaknesses.
05/28/09
Grimaldi's elegantly understated film is a Groundhog Day of grief suppressed and life suspended.
10/20/08
Don’t expect anything too profound from this middleweight fare -- but it’ll still be better than the inevitable remake.
10/24/08
Top CriticDon’t expect anything too profound from this middleweight fare - but it’ll still be better than the inevitable remake.
10/24/08
Top Critic[Nanni] Moretti makes this 'study' in despair a naggingly neutral, at times borderline coy experience.
07/22/09
Grimaldi, Moretti and their co-screenwriters have cunningly opened up the narrative cinematically.
03/03/08
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
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
It's watchable and fluent, but there is something narcissistic and conceited in Moretti's performance.
10/24/08
Top CriticNanni Moretti superbly carries family tragedy, infusing it with depth and humor.
10/18/08
But on balance, they're outweighed by some striking and funny moments, and Moretti's immensely charming, reassuring presence.
10/24/08
Quiet Chaos has strength and insight about the experiences that cause us to change direction in life.
05/22/09
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