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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 |
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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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]
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]
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]
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