Rotten
[Nanni] Moretti makes this 'study' in despair a naggingly neutral, at times borderline coy experience.
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
Overview
Pietro is a successful businessman with a wife and a daughter. One day he helps his brother save two women from drowning at the beach. When he returns home he finds that his wife has died. Now Pietro has to take care of his daughter, Claudia. When he drives her to school soon after, he decides to wait for her all day in front of the school, and soon that's what he does every day.
Director and cast
- Antonello Grimaldi Director
- Nanni Moretti as Pietro Paladini
- Alessandro Gassmann as Carlo
- Valeria Golino as Marta
- Isabella Ferrari as Eleonora Simonicini
- Blu Yoshimi as Claudia
- Hippolyte Girardot as Jean Claude
- Kasia Smutniak as Jolanda
- Denis Podalydès as Thierry
- Charles Berling as Boesson
- Silvio Orlando as Samuele
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
78%
Tomatometer
Rotten
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.
V.A. Musetto, New York Post
Fresh
The film, while uneven -- sometimes too on the nose, sometimes anecdotal and diffuse -- is generally absorbing, thanks mostly to the quality of the acting.
A.O. Scott, New York Times
Rotten
Unfortunately, Quiet Chaos can't help but become heated, and a ridiculous climax sabotages much of the emotional weight.
Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York
Rotten
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.
Ella Taylor, Village Voice
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