Ears (film)
2016 comedy film
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Ears (Italian: Orecchie) is a 2016 Italian comedy film written and directed by Alessandro Aronadio. It premiered at the 73rd edition of the Venice Film Festival.
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Valerio Cilio (collaboration)
- Daniele Parisi
- Francesca Antonelli
- Silvana Bosi
- Masaria Colucci
- Silvia D'Amico
- Piera Degli Esposti
- Ivan Franěk
- Sonia Gessner
- Paolo Giovannucci
- Rocco Papaleo
- Andrea Purgatori
- Re Salvador
- Niccolò Senni
- Pamela Villoresi
- Milena Vukotic
- Massimo Wertmüller
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| Directed by | Alessandro Aronadio |
| Screenplay by | Alessandro Aronadio Valerio Cilio (collaboration) |
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| Cinematography | Francesco Di Giacomo |
| Edited by | Roberto Di Tanna |
| Music by | Santi Pulvirenti |
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| Language | Italian |
Plot
Cast
- Daniele Parisi as Him
- Silvia D'Amico as Alice
- Pamela Villoresi as Rosanna
- Ivan Franek as Nikolaj
- Rocco Papaleo as Giancarlo
- Piera Degli Esposti as Newspaper Editor
- Milena Vukotic as Miss Marinetti
- Paolo Giovannucci as Remo
- Andrea Purgatori as Otolaryngologist
- Massimo Wertmüller as Gastroenterologist
- Francesca Antonelli as Emergency Room Clerk
- Niccolò Senni as Fast Food Clerk
- Silvana Bosi as Nun
- Sonia Gessner as Neighbor
Production
The film was shot in black and white and uses a metaphorical aspect ratio, which starts in 1:1 and gradually expands to 1.85.1.[1][2][3]
Release
The film premiered at the 73rd Venice International Film Festival, in the Venice Biennale sidebar, and was awarded the Young Cinema Award for best Italian film.[4] The film was also screened at the Seattle International Film Festival.[5]
Reception
The film was nominated as best comedy film at the 2017 Silver Ribbon Awards.[6] Giampietro Balia from Cineuropa described it as a "sardonic take on our human condition", whose "even-keeled satire spares nobody", and paired it to Jan-Ole Gerster's A Coffee in Berlin, even if "Aronadio goes one step further, bending the rules of composition to serve the higher purpose of trapping the protagonist in a claustrophobic and stifling space".[7]
