Caos Calmo (Quiet Chaos) (2008)
Average Rating: 6.3/10
Reviews Counted: 36
Fresh: 27 | Rotten: 9
An understated and thoughtful insight into grief and despair, with a stellar turn from Nanni Moretti.
Average Rating: 5.8/10
Critic Reviews: 9
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 4
An understated and thoughtful insight into grief and despair, with a stellar turn from Nanni Moretti.
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With Quiet Chaos (Caos Calmo), acclaimed Italian helmer Nanni Moretti steps away from his standard directorial role to essay the lead and co-author the script in a gentle psychological drama directed by Antonello Grimaldi. Moretti stars as Pietro, a film executive whose life takes an irreversible and devastating turn one fateful morning. During a trip to the beach with his brother, Pietro's path intersects with that of a woman, Eleonora (Isabella Ferrari), who is drowning in the ocean;
Jun 26, 2009 Wide
Jan 26, 2010
IFC Films
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Cast
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Nanni Moretti
Pietro Paladini -
Valeria Golino
Marta -
Isabella Ferrari
Eleonora Simoncini -
Alessandro Gassman
Carlo -
Blu Yoshimi
Claudia Paladini -
Hippolyte Girardot
Jean Claude -
Kasia Smutniak
Jolanda -
Denis Podalydès
Thierry -
Charles Berling
Boesson -
Silvio Orlando
Samuele -
Roman Polanski
Steiner -
Alba Rohrwacher
Annalisa -
Manuela Morabito
Maria Grazia -
Roberto Nobile
Taramanni -
Babak Karimi
Mario -
Beatrice Bruschi
Benedetta -
Antonella Attili
Gloria -
Sara D'Amario
Francesca -
Cloris Brosca
psychotherapist -
Tatiana Lepore
Matteo's mother -
Stefano Guglielmi
Matteo
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All Critics (38) | Top Critics (10) | Fresh (27) | Rotten (9)
[Nanni] Moretti makes this 'study' in despair a naggingly neutral, at times borderline coy experience.
Top CriticMoretti gives his usual excellent performance. But the script throws in too many other elements while it should be concentrating on the father-daughter relationship.
The film, while uneven -- sometimes too on the nose, sometimes anecdotal and diffuse -- is generally absorbing, thanks mostly to the quality of the acting.
Unfortunately, Quiet Chaos can't help but become heated, and a ridiculous climax sabotages much of the emotional weight.
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.
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.
Grief has rarely felt quite so empty as it does in Quiet Chaos.
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.
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.
Quiet Chaos has strength and insight about the experiences that cause us to change direction in life.
Some of the plot is implausible, yet the core ideas resonate richly, and the characters' behaviour is psychologically intriguing.
[Moretti delivers] a complex and complete performance...
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).
A respectable and always watchable film about bereavement, well acted and well made.
It's subtle stuff with an appealing lack of contrivance and there is something very natural about its resolution.
It's like a psychological study, but performed with grace and humanity
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
Moretti's imposing frame and presence form the heart of this unexpected tale about love, relationships and loss.
Don't expect anything too profound from this middleweight fare - but it'll still be better than the inevitable remake.
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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