Two brothers coming back from a beach where they just saved two women from drowning found that the elder brother's wife had passed away and his young daughter crying, asking where her father had been.

It was the context set for the movie, Quiet Chaos, which was "nominated for an unprecedented 18 David di Donatello awards (the Italian equivalent of The Oscars) and a number one hit in Italy."

The story followed was all sorts of meetings that the father had while staying outside his daughter's school. We saw parents coming to pick up their children; the father's colleagues coming to discuss the company's upcoming merger; the late wife's sister coming to seek personal consolation; and the younger brother coming to see how the father and the daughter were holding up after their loved one departed.

The movie gave the audience a fresh perspective of the process of mourning, healing and recovering. Gradually, we saw the sorrow hidden under the father's calm countenance was overcome by a somewhat chaotic current created by people around him. Most importantly, it was the strong connection between father and daughter that kept him moving forward.

Quiet Chaos is my first movie from the 2009 Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival. My previous Nanni Moretti film was April back in 2004.

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