Hear Me Out

Antoine seems to listen to nothing and nobody. Examples of this are his students, his classmates, his friends, his colleagues or his lovers, who ask for more attention and blame him for his lack of concentration and empathy. Although there is a good reason for Antoine not to listen to anyone: although he is still young, he has lost a lot of hearing.

One day Claire, in search of peace and tranquility, go to live in her building with her sister and daughter for a season after the death of her husband. Antoine is not the best neighbor in the world because due to his listening problems in his apartment he plays loud music and has an alarm clock that sounds non-stop. However, it seems that both are made for each other.

According to the director, protagonist and screenwriter of the film, Pascal Elbé: "The challenge was to find a story that did not end in a mere clinical account of the life of a person with hearing impairment. In the novel 'La vie en sourdine' he realizes a situation that I know well, but that manages to build a universal narrative.

My story in the film has taken the character of a romantic comedy. Although... I don?t really know what "romantic" means at our age. It?s the story of an encounter. My film is a comedy of encounters".