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Dad Is Distracted by Life, Work and a Motherless 10-Year-Old Daughter

The wanton slaughter of mothers and the consequent struggles of grieving single dads has been an epidemic in Hollywood for a long time, and not only in movies starring John Cusack. “Quiet Chaos,” a new film from the Italian director Antonello Grimaldi, demonstrates that the sad-dad melodrama is a global (or at least a midlevel European art film) phenomenon. If the film is less maudlin and more psychologically astringent than most American specimens, this is partly a matter of Mr. Grimaldi’s restraint and partly thanks to Nanni Moretti’s sharp and unpredictable turn as the dad in question. [...]

di A. O. Scott, articolo completo (3527 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 26 giugno 2009