Ears (film)

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.

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.

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. The film was also screened at the Seattle International Film Festival.

Reception
The film was nominated as best comedy film at the 2017 Silver Ribbon Awards. 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".