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
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Some of the plot is implausible, yet the core ideas resonate richly, and the characters' behaviour is psychologically intriguing. Full Review |
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3/5 |
[Moretti delivers] a complex and complete performance... Full Review |
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2.5/5 |
Touching 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). Full Review |
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3/5 |
A respectable and always watchable film about bereavement, well acted and well made. Full Review |
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4/5 |
It's subtle stuff with an appealing lack of contrivance and there is something very natural about its resolution. Full Review |
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It's like a psychological study, but performed with grace and humanity Full Review |
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Quiet 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 Full Review |
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Moretti's imposing frame and presence form the heart of this unexpected tale about love, relationships and loss. Full Review |
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Click to read the article Full Review |
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[Nanni] Moretti makes this 'study' in despair a naggingly neutral, at times borderline coy experience. Full Review |
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2/4 |
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. Full Review |
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2.5/5 |
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. Full Review |
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3.5/5 |
The film, while uneven -- sometimes too on the nose, sometimes anecdotal and diffuse -- is generally absorbing, thanks mostly to the quality of the acting. Full Review |
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3/5 |
Unfortunately, Quiet Chaos can’t help but become heated, and a ridiculous climax sabotages much of the emotional weight. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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3/5 |
Grimaldi’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. Full Review |
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Quiet Chaos has strength and insight about the experiences that cause us to change direction in life. Full Review |
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3/5 |
Don’t expect anything too profound from this middleweight fare - but it’ll still be better than the inevitable remake. Full Review |
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4/6 |
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. Full Review |
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4/5 |
The boldest stroke in Nanni Moretti’s Quiet Chaos is in what it doesn’t do, rather than what it does. Full Review |
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