Quiet Chaos is what Pietro Paladini has felt in his heart ever since his wife's sudden death. Pietro is a successful executive, happily married and father of a 10 year old daughter, Claudia. One day, after having saved the lives of two women who were drowning, he arrives home only to discover his wife has suddenly died. From that moment on his life changes radically. Pietro takes Claudia to school on her first day back and decides spontaneously to wait for her until classes are over. He sits in his car, wanders in the park and has coffee at a nearby cafe. He decides to do the same the following day and the days after that. Pietro waits each day for the pain to arrive. His bosses, fellow workers and relatives all come to console him but end up confiding their own pain and difficulties, surrendering to his incomprehensible calm. Gradually, Pietro begins to look at the world through new eyes. In the end, it is through his love for his daughter that Pietro finds the key to a kind of spiritual rebirth and emerges from this journey with a newfound love of life.

Quiet Chaos (Caos calmo) is the most recent feature from Italian director Antonio Luigi Grimaldi, amnd stars in the lead role fellow director Nanni Moretti, a man whose on-screen presence managed to infuriate almost the entire audience at our screening of his 1998 Aprile but who man some serious amends in 2001 with his deeply moving The Son's Room (La Stanza del figlio). Moretti also co-wrote this film's screenplay with Laura Paolucci and Francesco Piccolo from Sandro Veronesi's book, a screenplay that won the Silver Plaque at last year's Chicago International Film Festival. The film was also nominated in a startling 11 categories at last year's David di Donatello Awards and won three, for Best Music (Paolo Buonvino), Best Original Song (Ivano Fossati) and Best Supporting Actor (Alessandro Gassman).

Quiet Chaos will be released on UK DVD on 2nd March 2009 by New Wave Films at the RRP of £19.99. The disc will feature a 1.85:1 anamorpghic transfer with a Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo soundtrack and optional English subtitles, plus the following extra features:

• Interviews with Antonello Grimaldi (9 mins), Nanni Moretti (4 mins) and Sandro Veronesi (11 mins);
• Making of Quiet Chaos documentary (47 mins);
• Behind-the-scenes featurette (9 mins);
• Theatrical Trailer (2 mins).