The boldest stroke in Nanni Moretti’s Quiet Chaos is in what it doesn’t do, rather than what it does.
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10/24/08
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 CriticIt'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
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 CriticDon’t expect anything too profound from this middleweight fare -- but it’ll still be better than the inevitable remake.
10/24/08
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
But on balance, they're outweighed by some striking and funny moments, and Moretti's immensely charming, reassuring presence.
10/24/08
Quiet Chaos is understated and restrained, perhaps too much so.
10/24/08
Engaging Italian drama with a strong central performance from Nanni Moretti and colourful, scene-stealing support from Valeria Golino.
10/23/08
Grimaldi's elegantly understated film is a Groundhog Day of grief suppressed and life suspended.
10/20/08
Beautifully modulated, fluidly told film expresses pain with warm understatement.
10/18/08
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
Nanni Moretti superbly carries family tragedy, infusing it with depth and humor.
10/18/08
Grimaldi, Moretti and their co-screenwriters have cunningly opened up the narrative cinematically.
03/03/08
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