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.
Quiet Chaos(Caos calmo)
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Italy, United Kingdom · 2008
1h 45m
Director Antonello Grimaldi
Starring Nanni Moretti, Alessandro Gassmann, Valeria Golino, Isabella Ferrari
Genre Drama, Romance
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Pietro is a successful businessman with a wife and a daughter. When he loses his wife unexpectedly, his whole life is turned upside down. He drops everything and puts his life on hold to sit outside his daughter's school every day until she comes out at the end of the day.
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The New York Times by A.O. Scott
Thankfully, Mr. Grimaldi and the screenwriters have no great lessons to impart or messages to deliver, and the film, while uneven -- sometimes too on the nose, sometimes anecdotal and diffuse -- is generally absorbing, thanks mostly to the quality of the acting.
Entertainment Weekly by Owen Gleiberman
Moretti makes this ''study'' in despair a naggingly neutral, at times borderline coy experience.
Stick around till the end. You don't want to miss an unexpected cameo from a filmmaker I won't name. Hint: He's short, likes younger women and isn't Woody Allen.
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