Caos calmo (2008)

Director:

Antonio Luigi Grimaldi

Writers:

Sandro Veronesi (book) and
Nanni Moretti (writer)

Release Date:

8 February 2008 (Italy)

Genre:

Drama | Romance

Plot:

A look at the strange bereavement behavior of an Italian executive. Based on a novel by Sandro Veronesi. |

Plot Keywords:

Loss | Anal Sex | Father Daughter Relationship | Sex

Awards:

2 wins & 2 nominations

Cast

Nanni Moretti	...	Pietro Paladini
Valeria Golino	...	Marta
Alessandro Gassman	...	Carlo
Isabella Ferrari	...	Eleonora Simoncini
Silvio Orlando	...	Samuele
Blu Di Martino	...	Claudia (as Blu Yoshimi)
Hippolyte Girardot	...	Jean Claude
Roberto Nobile	...	Taramanni
Alba Rohrwacher	...	Annalisa
Manuela Morabito	...	Maria Grazia
Kasia Smutniak	...	Jolanda
Beatrice Bruschi	...	Benedetta
Sara D'Amico	...	Francesca
Babak Karimi	...	Mario
Tatiana Lepore	...	Mamma di Matteo

Also Known As:

Quiet Chaos (Europe: English title) (festival title) (International: English title)

Runtime:

Germany:105 min (Berlin International Film Festival)

Country:

Italy | UK

Language:

Italian

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Certification:

Netherlands:12 | Italy:T

Company:

Fandango

Trivia:

Kasia Smutniak wears a T-shirt of the last tour of The Who. Director Antonio Luigi Grimaldi, a big fan of The Who, bought it at their live concert in summer 2007 at the Arena of Verona.

Movie Connections:

References Psycho (1960)

Soundtrack:

Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk

Much ado about nothing

Can't understand all the fuss about this movie. Yes, the photography is beautiful, but that's about all. Nanni Moretti is very good at playing himself, as usual, no matter what's the name or the role he is given. It's been said that's a movie about the absence of grief: but even to that effect the sense of grief should be somehow, somewhere implied, which it is not in the least. The ending is there just because the movie had to be ended, but it could have happened like that at any point. There is no change or development. Seemingly adult people talk as if they were permanently immature teenagers and a little girl comes out with a typically adult comment on her pairs. Comments upon life, society, corporations, etc., are a sequel of common places typical of talk shows. Would be dramatic sequences seem picked out from fashionable advertising clips and have the same emotional impact. The overrated and over-discussed torrid sex scene is just a softer imitation of hard core platitudes. No doubt there was matter for drama, but apparently the author didn't know how to deal with it: may very well be that, under this viewpoint, the script has been quite truthful to the Veronesi's novel it's been based on.