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BEL CINEMA!

Quiet Chaos

ANTONELLO GRIMALDI
Italy, 2008, 113 minutes, Color, film's website

Suddenly finding himself a widower, film executive Pietro (Nanni Moretti) is bewildered by his apparent lack of grief yet resolves to be the perfect father to his 10-year-old daughter, Claudia (Blu Yoshimi). This determination manifests itself oddly: apprehensive about letting Claudia out of his sight, Pietro takes up daily residence in the park across from her school. Soon, emerging patterns and new relationships (including Roman Polanski in a pivotal cameo) spread out into an array of strangely serendipitous happenings, pushing Pietro's life in entirely new and unforeseen directions. Caressed by Paolo Buonvino's lovely score—itself punctuated by songs from Rufus Wainwright, Radiohead ("Pyramid Song"), and others—Quiet Chaos is rich with charm and insight and thus profoundly affecting. —Eddie Cockrell

In Italian, French, and English with English subtitles

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