Don’t expect anything too profound from this middleweight fare - but it’ll still be better than the inevitable remake.
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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.
Theatrical Release:24-10-2008
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 CriticA 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
Top CriticThe boldest stroke in Nanni Moretti’s Quiet Chaos is in what it doesn’t do, rather than what it does.
10/24/08
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
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
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09/09/09
[Nanni] Moretti makes this 'study' in despair a naggingly neutral, at times borderline coy experience.
07/22/09
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.
06/26/09
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.
06/26/09
The film, while uneven -- sometimes too on the nose, sometimes anecdotal and diffuse -- is generally absorbing, thanks mostly to the quality of the acting.
06/26/09
Top CriticUnfortunately, Quiet Chaos can’t help but become heated, and a ridiculous climax sabotages much of the emotional weight.
06/25/09
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