A man wakes up one morning with an annoying ringing sound in his ears. A note on the fridge says: "Your friend Luigi has died. P.S. I took the car". The problem is that he does not even remember who this guy Luigi is. This is just the beginning of a tragicomic day during which he will be plunged into the folly of the world. One of those days that changes your life forever.
Direction
Aronadio's single-day structure builds delicious mounting panic.
Acting
Parisi's deadpan unraveling carries every absurd encounter.
Editing
Rapid-fire cuts mirror the protagonist's fractured mental state.
Director
Alessandro Aronadio
Daniele Parisi
Lui
Silvia D'Amico
Alice
Pamela Villoresi
Rosanna
Ivan Franěk
Nikolaj
Rocco Papaleo
Padre Giancarlo
Piera Degli Esposti
Direttrice del giornale
Milena Vukotić
Signora Marinetti
Andrea Purgatori
Otorino
Massimo Wertmüller
Gastroenterologo
Niccolò Senni
Impiegato del fastfood
Francesca Antonelli
Impiegata Pronto Soccorso
Silvana Bosi
Suora
Sonia Gessner
Vicina
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of a 2010s Italian micro-genre of 'giornata' films where everything collapses in 24 hours.
The ringing ears are real—director Aronadio suffered chronic tinnitus and wrote from that maddening, isolating experience.
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