Alessandro Aronadio’s dark comedy is a Must-See at this year’s ICFF! Here are the TOP 10 reasons you won’t want to miss it!

Orecchie

We are excited to screen Alessandro Aronadio’s Orecchie at this year’s #ICFF17! Here are the top 10 reasons to add it to your MUST-SEE list!

1) Orecchie (Ears) was written and directed by Aronadio.

2) Aronadio is a Fulbright scholar (for life, he tells us), studied in Los Angeles, and is fluent in English.

3) The end of the movie is a kind of Rorschach test that Aronadio has created to evaluate our psychological evaluation of it. Did you feel hopeful or depressed? Aronadio wants to know.

4) Rocco Papaleo plays an unusual priest that believes that a lot of the Bible is nonsense.

Rocco Papaleo, Orecchie

5) Orecchie is a sort of philosophy lesson, referencing Nietzsche, for example: “You’re not more intelligent. You’re just unhappier.”

6) The movie’s star, Daniele Parisi, bears a striking resemblance to Aronadio, one that he insists is a coincidence, but we’re not so sure…

Daniele Parisi

Alessandro Aronadio

7) Parisi’s character has no name.

8) He wakes up to find a note on his refrigerator that says, “Your friend Luigi has died. PS I took the car.” But he doesn’t know anyone named Luigi.

9) Orecchie premiered at the 2016 Venice Film Festival and went home with 3 awards.
10) Aronadio’s favorite thing about the film is that it was so lo budget that it’s his alone, didn’t have to answer to anyone, and could make Orecchie exactly the way he wanted to.