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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.

Rated: Not Rated

Runtime: 1 hr 45 mins

Genre: Foreign Films

Theatrical Release:Jun 26, 2009 Limited

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... 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 girl that he will wait for her in the car when she returns to school for the first time, but then his temporary offer turns into habit. Now, Pietro spends his days in his car, watching the world around him and grieving in his own way. [More]

Starring: Nanni Moretti, Valeria Golino, Isabella Ferrari, Alessandro Gassman

Starring: Nanni Moretti, Valeria Golino, Isabella Ferrari, Alessandro Gassman, Hippolyte Girardot, Blu Yoshimi, Kasia Smutniak, Denis Podalydes, Charles Berling, Silvio Orlando

Director: Antonello Grimaldi

Director: Antonello Grimaldi
Screenwriter: Nanni Moretti, Laura Paolucci, Francesco Piccolo
Producer: Domenico Procacci, Alessandro Pesci
Composer: Paolo Buonvino
Studio: IFC Films

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Full Review Source: New Republic | comment Comment
09/09/09
Stanley Kauffmann
Stanley Kauffmann
New Republic
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[Nanni] Moretti makes this 'study' in despair a naggingly neutral, at times borderline coy experience.

Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | comment Comment
07/22/09
Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman
Entertainment Weekly
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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 Source: New York Post | comment Comment
06/26/09
V.A. Musetto
V.A. Musetto
New York Post
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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 Source: Film-Forward.com | comment Comment
06/26/09
Kent Turner
Kent Turner
Film-Forward.com

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 Source: New York Times | comment Comment
06/26/09
A.O. Scott
A.O. Scott
New York Times
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Unfortunately, Quiet Chaos can’t help but become heated, and a ridiculous climax sabotages much of the emotional weight.

Full Review Source: Time Out New York | comment Comment
06/25/09
Joshua Rothkopf
Joshua Rothkopf
Time Out New York

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 Source: Village Voice | comment Comment
06/24/09
Ella Taylor
Ella Taylor
Village Voice
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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 Source: Boxoffice Magazine | comment Comment
05/28/09
Richard Mowe
Richard Mowe
Boxoffice Magazine

Quiet Chaos has strength and insight about the experiences that cause us to change direction in life.

Full Review Source: MovieTime, ABC Radio National | comment Comment
05/22/09
Julie Rigg
Julie Rigg
MovieTime, ABC Radio National

Some of the plot is implausible, yet the core ideas resonate richly, and the characters' behaviour is psychologically intriguing.

Full Review Source: FILMINK (Australia) | comment Comment
05/22/09
Mark Demetrius
Mark Demetrius
FILMINK (Australia)

[Moretti delivers] a complex and complete performance...

Full Review Source: Daily Telegraph (Australia) | comment Comment
05/22/09
Des Partridge
Des Partridge
Daily Telegraph (Australia)

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 Source: The Age (Australia) | comment Comment
05/22/09
Jake Wilson
Jake Wilson
The Age (Australia)

A respectable and always watchable film about bereavement, well acted and well made.

Full Review Source: At the Movies (Australia) | comment Comment
05/22/09
David Stratton
David Stratton
At the Movies (Australia)

It's subtle stuff with an appealing lack of contrivance and there is something very natural about its resolution.

Full Review Source: Sydney Morning Herald | comment Comment
05/22/09
Sandra Hall
Sandra Hall
Sydney Morning Herald

It's like a psychological study, but performed with grace and humanity

Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile | comment Comment
05/16/09
Andrew L. Urban
Andrew L. Urban
Urban Cinefile

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 Source: Urban Cinefile | comment Comment
05/16/09
Louise Keller
Louise Keller
Urban Cinefile

Moretti's imposing frame and presence form the heart of this unexpected tale about love, relationships and loss.

Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile | comment Comment
05/15/09
Urban Cinefile Critics
Urban Cinefile Critics
Urban Cinefile

Don’t expect anything too profound from this middleweight fare - but it’ll still be better than the inevitable remake.

Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
10/24/08
Sam Toy
Sam Toy
Empire Magazine

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 Source: Time Out | comment Comment
10/24/08
Dave Calhoun
Dave Calhoun
Time Out

The boldest stroke in Nanni Moretti’s Quiet Chaos is in what it doesn’t do, rather than what it does.

Full Review Source: Times [UK] | comment Comment
10/24/08
Kevin Maher
Kevin Maher
Times [UK]
 
 
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