A Quiet Life (2010)

• Year: 2010
• Released: 05 Nov 2010
• Country: Italy, France, Germany
• Adwords: 3 wins & 14 nominations
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1521090/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/a_quiet_life
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• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: Italian, German, Neapolitan, English
• MPA Rating: N/A
• Genre: Crime, Drama
• Runtime: 105 min
• Writer: Filippo Gravino, Guido Iuculano, Claudio Cupellini
• Director: Claudio Cupellini
• Cast: Toni Servillo, Marco D’Amore, Francesco Di Leva
• Keywords: neo-noir,

	6.8/10
	65% – Critics
	65% – Audience

A Quiet Life Storyline

Rosario Russo has spent the last fifteen years building a new life for himself in Germany as an accomplished chef and owner of a restaurant and hotel that bear his name. His German wife Renate and son Mathias don’t know much about the past Rosario left behind in Naples and don’t know who Diego and Edoardo, two Italians that show up at their hotel one day looking for lodging, might be. It soon becomes clear they represent both a chance for Rosario to heal a part of his past and a threat to the “quiet life” that he has so carefully constructed since he left Italy. He’ll soon be faced with the familiar but agonizing question about what is too great a price to pay for your own survival. And also have to reconcile his competing loyalties – between the family he has now and the two he left behind – the one he swore an oath to and the one that is now at his doorstep.—Christopher Carlo Celi

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A great performance by Toni Servillo, supported by a steady direction

A tough subject, dealing with a former killer member of the Camorra, who left for Germany to build a new identity and has to come to terms, after 15 yeas, with his past, on the background of a still actual emergency in Italy, that of rubbish in Naples: a difficult subject to handle, but solidly handled. The director proceeds with a highly controlled and steady direction, made up of sequence-shots, close-ups: this, together with clear-cut and sharp characters and essential dialogues contribute to an overall solid rendering of the drama, without parting with some increasing tension. Intensity gradually increases, indeed, supported by a tense narrative rhythm, probably partly ruined by the unlikely final slackening. Toni Servillo, awarded as best actor at the latest Rome film festival, makes a substantial difference, being his main role fit for him: his performance is truly great, intense, perfectly able to render the inner drama of a man trying to overcome a painful past, which will never abandon him.

A little-known gem.

This was a lot more than what I bargained for in a late Saturday night, searching for a decent crime film to watch. ”Una Vita Tranquilla” is a wonderful, slow-burning character study, pondering on familial relationships, more specifically the father-son bonding and the problem of emotional communication between them. Toni Servillio gives once more a spectacular performance as the veteran mafioso from Naples who sought and found refuge in Germany, now living with his wife and 9-year old son and owning a restaurant. When he gets a visit in Germany from his son and a friend of his, the protagonist will embark once again on a journey that 15 years ago sworn that he would never do again. The pace is slow, but at no time the movie gets tedious or uninteresting as it is the development of characters and the good dialogue that compensate for a not particularly rich plot. Apart from Toni Servillo, the rest of the cast does a terrific and the same goes for Gergely Pohárnok the person behind the magnificent cinematography of the film. As a result, ”Una Vita Tranquilla” is one of the best psychological/crime European films of the last years.

Da Rosario

Rosario Russo, an Italian chef, has made a life for himself in Germany. He is happily married to Renate, and have a boy, Mathias, that is their pride and joy. Always late for picking him up, Rosario, tries to be polite even when a mortified teacher scolds him for his delayed arrival. His solution to invite her for dinner, something that does not sit well with the woman.

Two young Italians have been recruited to kill a man. When fire at their hotel make them leave, they show at the country inn with a restaurant run by Rosario. The chef, preparing to serve a large banquet, is not ready to see one of the guys, whom he recognizes as his own son Diego. He realizes his companion, Edoardo, is up to no good. Rosario gives them a room while he tries to investigate what the pair is doing in that part of Germany.

Rosario tails the duo to outside a factory where Diego is about to shoot his target. Rosario, coming out of his hiding place, warns Diego not to do it, but Edoardo takes the gun and kills the man in a cruel fashion. Trying to put some sense into Diego does not work. Edoardo does not take long to realize Rosario’s true identity. He realizes that Rosario is in reality Antonio, the man with a violent past in Naples, being sought by the people he himself killed during his crime life.

“A Quiet Life” directed by Claudio Cupellini, is another variation on the theme of the past coming to haunt a man whose life had taken a complete change and is now an upright citizen trying to lead a good life among people that have given him an opportunity to absolve himself. The screenplay is by the director in collaboration with Guido Iculano and Filippo Gravino. The idea is not exactly new, but the execution by Claudio Cupellini, with the help of tremendous performance by one of Italy’s leading actors, is interesting, keeping the viewer glued to the nonstop surprising twists in the story.

Toni Servillo, who gave a powerful performance as Giulio Andreotti in “It Divo”, makes quite an impression with his Rosario, a man who reinvented himself in a different setting, but whose past came back to him with a vengeance. Mr. Servillo is a joy to watch. His range of emotions go from the happy man at the start of the film to that of a man who sees all he has built crumbles in front of his eyes. Juliane Kohler plays Renate, the German wife whose life is destroyed as well. Marco D’Amore shines as Diego, the long lost son. Francesco Di Leva is Edoardo, the loose cannon who discovers a deeply hidden secret.

Claudio Cupellini shows talent in setting this story with his impeccable execution. One looks forward to more contributions by the director in the coming years.