Filmed in 1970, The Ear did not receive a major release
until 1989 after Soviet-rule in the Czech Republic ended and certain avenues
for artistic expression were laxed.
The Ear is often
compared to the Elizabeth Taylor-Richard Burton white-knuckle ride, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Appropriately so considering both place unhappy couples in (often) stressful or
terrifying situations (exacerbated by alcoholic females) that bring to the
surface all of the pockmarks of their respective relationships as they teeter
on out and out destruction.
The Ear follows a
couple returning from a political/work party only to find that their house had
been bugged by the Communists. The paranoia behind what’s been said and when
drives the couple to lash out at each other only to sorta find each other again
once on the brink of destruction and madness.
This is a tremendous film.
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