Quiet Chaos (MOD)
Quiet Chaos is playing in a very limited release so I saw it on Movies on Demand. Well directed by Antonio Grimaldi the film is well worth seeing.
The film opens up with a rescue in the ocean. This will figure heavily on the rest of the film. But the really story starts in the section right after that. Television executive Pietro (Nanni Moretti, who also co-wrote the screenplay) and his brother Carlos (Allessandro Gassman) come back to their country home after the rescue to find that Pietro's wife Lara is dead. She is laying on the grass with melon all around her. In a true state of shock is Pietro's young daughter Claudia (Blu Yoshimi).
The rest of the film is filled with many moments in the lives of Pietro and Claudia. Ultimately, it is about how they handle grief and loss. And it all feels very real. Pietro's company is in the middle of a merger with an American company but his mind is on his daughter.
There is a scene in the film that may or may not be real. I thought that it was a dream or a fantasy (a very hot one!) and I would love to discuss it with people who saw the film. Edit: I rewatched the sequence and I think that it is real and not a dream.
Moretti is fantastic as the confused, sad Pietro. He is in almost every scene in the film. Young Yoshimi is great as is Gassman. Also doing some fine work is Valeria Golino as Pietro's bent out of shape sister-in-law Marta and Isabelle Ferrari as Eleanora, one of the women who was rescued in the first scene. Towards the end of the film a world famous director makes a cameo appearance. At first I wasn't sure it was him. I thought that my eyes were playing tricks on me. But when I looked on imdb I found out that I wasn't seeing things.
I highly recommend this film as a non-cloying look at grief and loss. It is very quiet and very moving. The film is a bit elliptical as not everything is spelled out for the viewer. But that makes it all the more intriguing. My only complaint is that at least on MOD the subtitles seem a bit smaller than usual, are sometimes hard to read (white on white) and go very fast. But don't let this put you off as it is easy to rewind the film and you can do it as many times as you need to.
The film opens up with a rescue in the ocean. This will figure heavily on the rest of the film. But the really story starts in the section right after that. Television executive Pietro (Nanni Moretti, who also co-wrote the screenplay) and his brother Carlos (Allessandro Gassman) come back to their country home after the rescue to find that Pietro's wife Lara is dead. She is laying on the grass with melon all around her. In a true state of shock is Pietro's young daughter Claudia (Blu Yoshimi).
The rest of the film is filled with many moments in the lives of Pietro and Claudia. Ultimately, it is about how they handle grief and loss. And it all feels very real. Pietro's company is in the middle of a merger with an American company but his mind is on his daughter.
There is a scene in the film that may or may not be real. I thought that it was a dream or a fantasy (a very hot one!) and I would love to discuss it with people who saw the film. Edit: I rewatched the sequence and I think that it is real and not a dream.
Moretti is fantastic as the confused, sad Pietro. He is in almost every scene in the film. Young Yoshimi is great as is Gassman. Also doing some fine work is Valeria Golino as Pietro's bent out of shape sister-in-law Marta and Isabelle Ferrari as Eleanora, one of the women who was rescued in the first scene. Towards the end of the film a world famous director makes a cameo appearance. At first I wasn't sure it was him. I thought that my eyes were playing tricks on me. But when I looked on imdb I found out that I wasn't seeing things.
I highly recommend this film as a non-cloying look at grief and loss. It is very quiet and very moving. The film is a bit elliptical as not everything is spelled out for the viewer. But that makes it all the more intriguing. My only complaint is that at least on MOD the subtitles seem a bit smaller than usual, are sometimes hard to read (white on white) and go very fast. But don't let this put you off as it is easy to rewind the film and you can do it as many times as you need to.
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