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Quiet Chaos (2008) Certificate 15

Quiet Chaos
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Rated 3.5 stars
Average rating
(67%)
 
Starring: Nanni Moretti | Valeria Golino | Alessandro Gassman | Isabella Ferrari | Silvio Orlando | Blu Di Martino | Hippolyte Girardot | Roberto Nobile | Alba Rohrwacher | Manuela Morabito
Director: Antonio Luigi Grimaldi
Studio: DRAKES AVENUE PICTURES
Run time: 105 mins
Genres: Drama | Romance | World Cinema
Languages: Italian
Subtitles: English
Released: March 02, 2009

Quiet Chaos is what Pietro Paladini has felt in his heart ever since his wife's sudden death. Pietro is a successful executive, happily married and father of a 10 year old daughter, Claudia. One day, after having saved the lives of two women who were drowning, he arrives home only to discover his wife has suddenly died.

From that moment on his life changes radically. Pietro takes Claudia to school on her first day back and decides spontaneously to wait for her until classes are over. He sits in his car, wanders in the park and has coffee at a nearby cafe. He decides to do the same the following day and the days after that. Pietro waits each day for the pain to arrive. His bosses, fellow workers and relatives all come to console him but end up confiding their own pain and difficulties, surrendering to his incomprehensible calm.

Gradually, Pietro begins to look at the world through new eyes. In the end, it is through his love for his daughter that Pietro finds the key to a kind of spiritual rebirth and emerges from this journey with a newfound love of life.

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Rating of 4 stars out of 5
Time Out

As well as writing, directing and appearing in his own work, Italian filmmaker Nanni Moretti sometimes acts for others,...

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7 out of 7 people found the following review helpful:

Rated 0.0 stars
Feel-good with a bite

Leni from , 23rd June, 2009

This is a beautifully made little film, with sympathetic acting and plotting. Some bits of it are also rather moving, often in quite routine situations. It deserves to be watched. The 'sex scene' is arguably relevant - it's not the fact that it appears so much as the point in the film, towards the end where it comes. I found that by then I had been captivated quite sufficiently by the emotional development of the characters. A funny-sad film, that never lags nor forces itself on us.

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2 out of 2 people found the following review helpful:

Rated 0.0 stars
Tender and thoughtful

Noseyjoe from , 30th July, 2009

This is one of those films that starts with a series of bewildering events and spends the next two hours studying the aftermath. Nanni Moretti makes a hugely sympathetic central figure as the widowed father, living on a park bench outside his daughter's school while a boardroom battle (a somewhat convoluted one, and rather a distraction from the matter in hand) rages over his head. He's no angel and is seen to have been adulterous (very graphically in one case) but nevertheless adores his daughter and occasionally seems to have become over-protective of her. The women in his life are all trying to get through to him yet he seems irretrievably detached. A very nice, very human film where not much happens (after the start) but you are intrigued enough to keep watching

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Rated 4.0 stars
Terrific film

aden from , 3rd March, 2010

This is a film that quietly gets under your skin. Only occasionally does anything obviously dramatic occur, but all the time things are bubbling quietly away, and your interest never flags. You're with the main character all the way, and sad to leave his company when the film stops. It's a wonderful achievement.

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Rated 3.0 stars
Subtitle trouble

A Customer from Northern Ireland, 1st October, 2009

Great trouble getting the subtitles at the start and when I had to break off was unable to restore them. Otherwise slow, interesting and thoughtful film, interrupted by an explicit and unnecessary sex scene, which may or may not have been a dream...

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Rated 5.0 stars
Quiet Chaos

uhygtiuplkuh from , 6th July, 2009

Nanni Maretti is sublime. This is a mature, sensitive & poignant reflection on bereavement & the ensuing chaos of challenging feelings & behaviours. It is not full of incident but packed with contemplation on relationship, love & commitment. Not for those who want action or 'hollywood'. One scene towards the end has been the opening scene of plenty of cheesy romcoms from America & almost seems placed to accentuate the contrast.

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