Andrea Pallaoro's restrained realization of Bernardo Bertolucci's final screenplay features a strong cast in a subdued romantic drama about music, addiction, recovery and exquisite interior decor.
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Courtesy of Indigo Film, Venice Film Festival If you’re ever thinking of attempting a single-location film, choose that location with care. Make it high-ceilinged, light-filled, book-lined, with a reading-nook conservatory area, a gargantuan sofa, a killer sound system and space enough that you don’t even have to turn sideways to sidle past the grand piano. If possible, have it overlook a neatly cobbled, colonnaded street where one can park one’s classic car. In short, make it the luscious London flat in which all of Andrea Pallaoro‘s “The Echo Chamber” takes place. When Anne (Alicia Vikander), a doctor who does house calls, tells her patient Leonardo (Luca Marinelli), a music producer suffering from chronic lower back pain, “I really like your apartment. There’s so many interesting things to look at,” it signals the beginning of a tentatively passionate love story, that perhaps only a man as secure as Leonardo — who looks like Luca Marinelli — could be certain is directed at him, and not his highly desirable residence.
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