Caos calmo (2008)

User Rating:

7.1/10   

Director:

Antonio Luigi Grimaldi

Writers:

Sandro Veronesi (book) and
Nanni Moretti (writer)
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Release Date:

26 June 2009 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Romance

Plot:

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

Plot Keywords:

School | Brother | Business | Girl | Palindrome

Awards:

5 wins & 16 nominations

Cast

Nanni Moretti	...	Pietro Paladini
Valeria Golino	...	Marta
Alessandro Gassman	...	Carlo Paladini
Isabella Ferrari	...	Eleonora Simoncini
Silvio Orlando	...	Samuele
Blu Di Martino	...	Claudia Paladini (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
Anna Gigante	...	Amica di Maria Grazia
Denis Podalydès	...	Thierry
Charles Berling	...	Boesson
Antonella Attili	...	Gloria
Cloris Brosca	...	Psicoterapeuta
Valentina Carnelutti	...	Amica di Maria Grazia
Stefano Guglielmi	...	Matteo
Nestor Saied	...	Simoncini
Dina Braschi	...	Donna anziana
Ester Cavallari	...	Lara Paladini
Roman Polanski	...	Steiner
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Claudia Alfonso	...	Ragazza
Roberta Bruni	...	Gymnastic Coach
Sara D'Amario	...	La moglie malata
Laura Paolucci
Francesco Piccolo
Riccardo	...	Nebbia - cane di Jolanta
Manuela Solvey

Directed by
Antonio Luigi Grimaldi		(as Antonello Grimaldi)

Writing credits
Sandro Veronesi		(book)
Nanni Moretti		writer
Laura Paolucci		writer
Francesco Piccolo		writer

Produced by
Eric Abraham	....	executive producer
Gianluca Leurini	....	line producer
Laura Paolucci	....	delegate producer
Domenico Procacci	....	producer

Original Music by
Paolo Buonvino

Cinematography by
Alessandro Pesci

Film Editing by
Angelo Nicolini

Casting by
Laura Muccino

Art Direction by
Giada Calabria

Set Decoration by
Daniela Manzo

Costume Design by
Alexandra Toesca

Makeup Department
Sharin Sabatini	....	key hair stylist

Production Management
Roberto Leone	....	production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Loredana Conte	....	assistant director
Ciro Scognamiglio	....	second assistant director

Sound Department
Gianluca Basili	....	sound effects editor
Sergio Basili	....	foley artist
Gaetano Carito	....	sound
Francesco Cucinelli	....	sound re-recording mixer
Davide Palmiotto	....	ProTools operator
Gianluca Stazi	....	sound editor

Special Effects by
Franco Galiano	....	special effects supervisor

Visual Effects by
Andrea Baracca	....	digital artist
Andrea Baracca	....	digital intermediate supervisor
Sergio Cremasco	....	digital color timing
Fabrizio Cucinotta	....	scanning and recording
Pasquale Di Viccaro	....	digital artist
Marco Geracitano	....	digital compositor: Proxima
Giulia Infurna	....	lead compositor
Lorenzo Moneta	....	main titles design
Adriano Mulè	....	digital compositor
Claudio Napoli	....	visual effects producer
Pietro Orlandi	....	compositor
Emanuele Pescatori	....	lead cgi artist
Proxima	....	visual effects
Marco Ruggieri	....	digital conform
Kristina Russo	....	visual effects
Paesani Sara	....	compositor
Giuseppe Squillaci	....	digital intermediate supervisor: Proxima
Paolo Zeccara	....	visual effects supervisor

Camera and Electrical Department
Federico Conte	....	gaffer
Chico de Luigi	....	still photographer
Emiliano Leurini	....	Steadicam operator
Emiliano Leurini	....	camera operator: "b" camera
Cristiano Sergioli	....	technocrane technician

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Caterina Micheli	....	costume assistant (uncredited)

Editorial Department
Filippo Pintucci	....	first assistant editor

Music Department
Fabio Venturi	....	music recordist-mixer

Other crew
Marco Giacometti	....	production coordinator
Laurence Granec	....	press attache: France
Gianni A. Graziol	....	location manager
Karine Menard	....	press attache: France
Rita Morelli	....	accountant
Giorgia Passarelli	....	production coordinator

Production Companies

• Fandango
• Portobello Pictures
• Phoenix Film Investment
• Rai Cinema (collaboration)
• Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali (MiBAC) (support)

Distributors

• IFC Films (2009) (USA) (theatrical) (subtitled)
• 01 Distribuzione (2008) (Italy) (all media)
• Alta Classics (2008) (Spain) (all media)
• Bac Films (2008) (France) (all media)
• Cinéart (2008) (Belgium) (all media)
• Cinéart (2008) (Luxembourg) (all media)
• Cinéart (2008) (Netherlands) (all media)
• Filmcoopi Zürich (2000) (Switzerland) (all media)
• Imovision (2008) (Brazil) (all media)
• JinJin Pictures (2008) (South Korea) (all media)
• KOOL Filmdistribution (2009) (Germany) (all media)
• Kinowelt Filmverleih (2008) (Germany) (all media)
• Lev Films (2008) (Israel) (all media)
• Midas Filmes (2008) (Portugal) (all media)
• Odeon (2008) (Greece) (all media)
• Rosebud (2008) (Greece) (all media)
• Seville Distribution (2008) (Canada) (all media)
• Øst for Paradis (2008) (Denmark) (all media)

Special Effects

• M.A.G. Special Effects

Other Companies

• Augustus Color  post-production (digital intermediate)
• New Digital  sound post-production

Also Known As:

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

Runtime:

105 min

Country:

Italy | UK

Language:

Italian | French

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Italy:T | Netherlands:12 | Ireland:16 | Australia:MA | France:U | Portugal:M/16 | UK:15 | USA:Not Rated

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:

L'amore trasparente

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.