Quiet Chaos, 2008

Pietro is a successful executive whose life is shaken to its foundations when one day he spends some of his spare time with his brother on the beach. They dive in to save two women from drowning, but when Pietro is dropped off at his summer villa, he finds his wife has just dropped out of the window - to her death. His ten year old daughter Claudia cries at him in reproach: where were you? At this moment he decides to never leave her alone and in stead of returning to work, he sets up shop in the park in front of his daughter's school and begins running his office and the rest of his life from there. From this place of quiet, he manages not only to come clean with his sorrow, but also to survive a stormy takeover of the firm he works at and to handle the chaos of other people surrounding him in his life. When finally Claudia begs him to no longer wait for her in the park, he is free to resume life. A wonderful film about humane warmth and emotions. The only, and at that point rather extreme, dissonant is a scene that has no coherent cause, neither significant consequences. Pietro and Claudia spend the night at the summer villa again, for the first time since his wife's fatal drop. With Claudia sound asleep, he is visited by the anonymous woman he has saved at the beginning of the film and they have passionate sex. Unless this is some all too subtle hint that he had been unfaithful to his late wife, the scene is totally redundant. What more, it is completely out of style with the serenity of the rest of the film.

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