The film, while uneven -- sometimes too on the nose, sometimes anecdotal and diffuse -- is generally absorbing, thanks mostly to the quality of the acting.
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06/26/09
Quiet Chaos (2009)
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Reviews Counted:34
Fresh:26
Rotten:8
Average Rating:6.3/10
Consensus: An understated and thoughtful insight into grief and despair, with a stellar turn from Nanni Moretti.
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... [More]
Starring: Nanni Moretti, Valeria Golino, Isabella Ferrari, Alessandro Gassman
Director: Antonello Grimaldi
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Reviews for Quiet Chaos
Top CriticIt's like a psychological study, but performed with grace and humanity
05/16/09
Grimaldi's elegantly understated film is a Groundhog Day of grief suppressed and life suspended.
10/20/08
Grimaldi, Moretti and their co-screenwriters have cunningly opened up the narrative cinematically.
03/03/08
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
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.
10/24/08
A respectable and always watchable film about bereavement, well acted and well made.
05/22/09
Quiet Chaos is understated and restrained, perhaps too much so.
10/24/08
[Moretti delivers] a complex and complete performance...
05/22/09
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).
05/22/09
Beautifully modulated, fluidly told film expresses pain with warm understatement.
10/18/08
Quiet Chaos has strength and insight about the experiences that cause us to change direction in life.
05/22/09
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
Moretti, present in nearly every scene, like an open wound, is ineffably empathetic.
10/24/08
The boldest stroke in Nanni Moretti’s Quiet Chaos is in what it doesn’t do, rather than what it does.
10/24/08
Moretti'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
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
05/16/09
Some of the plot is implausible, yet the core ideas resonate richly, and the characters' behaviour is psychologically intriguing.
05/22/09
Engaging Italian drama with a strong central performance from Nanni Moretti and colourful, scene-stealing support from Valeria Golino.
10/23/08
Nanni Moretti superbly carries family tragedy, infusing it with depth and humor.
10/18/08
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