Highway Melody

7

France

Comedy

90 min

2000

Sacha Bourdo Patrick Zard Gilles Gaston-Dreyfus Jacques Brécourt Lysiane Meis Rémy Roubakha Joseph Malerba Étienne Comar Nathalie Mann Patrick Brossard Cécile Parès Maïté Nahyr Sophie Forte Aure Atika Marie-France Pisier Dominique Pinon Philippe Nahon Marc Berman Julien Cafaro Christiane Bopp Jan Rouiller Sophie Mounicot Laurent Bouhnik

A man discovers he's no longer as close to his ear as he once was in this absurdist comedy. Jeff is minding his own business when a phonograph record tossed from a passing car accidentally cuts off his ear. The ear falls into traffic, gets stuck on the windshield of another vehicle, and begins a long, strange journey, passing from car to car and hand to hand across the country. Jeff, however, can still hear whatever his separated ear is picking up, and is trying to follow the sounds in hopes of catching up with his former body part. However, a doctor warns him he only has a few hours to find his ear, otherwise reattachment will be impossible; in the meantime, Jeff's former girlfriend wastes several of his precious minutes with a discussion about the notion of giving their relationship another try.