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The Echo Chamber

Venezia 83 Competition
Director:
Andrea Pallaoro
Production:
Indigo Film (Nicola Giuliano, Francesca Cima, Carlotta Calori, Viola Prestieri), con Rai Cinema, Versus Production (Jacques-Henri Bronckart, Tatjana Kozar)
Running Time:
123’
Language:
English, Italian
Country:
Italy, Belgium
Main Cast:
Luca Marinelli, Alicia Vikander, Susan Sarandon
Screenplay:
Bernardo Bertolucci, Ilaria Bernardini, Ludovica Rampoldi
Cinematographer:
Diego Garçia
Editor:
Paola Freddi
Production Designer:
Gaspare De Pascali
Costume Designer:
Antonella Cannarozzi
Music:
Clément Ducol
Sound:
Guilhem Donzel
Visual Effects:
Rodolfo Migliari
Makeup:Valentina Iannuccilli

Synopsis

A love story where the boundaries between presence and absence, care and dependence, desire and control blur until dissolving. Leo and Anne circle each other in an endless cycle of longing and separation, intimacy and distance. They cannot let go, nor break free. Through the rooms, Ava’s voice echoes across time, carrying to the surface what endures – and what can no longer be held back.

Director’s Statement

The Echo Chamber marks the first time I have taken on a screenplay I did not originally conceive myself. That distance allowed me to approach, in a new way, themes that have long fascinated me: the fragile and often imperceptible boundary between intimacy and dependency, devotion and addiction, care and control.
At its centre is a love story where love becomes inseparable from suffering – where emotional and physical pain distort the ways we seek closeness, and where tenderness can slowly transform into possession. Beneath its intimate scale, the film speaks to a universal condition: the way we cling to the very things that prevent us from moving forward. The Echo Chamber is about the residues people leave inside one another – memories, wounds, desires, dependencies – and the ways relationships can become spaces of both refuge and entrapment. The characters repeat the same emotional patterns, searching for connection while fearing it, manipulating one another to avoid confronting their own loneliness.

Production /Distribution

PRODUCTION 1:
INDIGO FILM - Nicola Giuliano, Francesca Cima, Carlotta Calori, Viola Prestieri,
Via Torino 135
00184 Roma, Italy
Tel: +39 0677250255
E-mail: info@indigofilm.it
Web: http://www.indigofilm.it

PRODUCTION 2:
RAI CINEMA – Paolo Del Brocco
Piazza Adriana 12
00193 Roma, Italy
Tel: +39 0633179601
E-mail: anna.pomara@raicinema.it
Web: http://www.raicinema.rai.it

PRODUCTION 3:
VERSUS PRODUCTION - Jacques-Henri Bronckart,Tatjana Kozar,
Quai Godefroid Kurth 10
4020 Liège, Belgium
Tel: +32 2 588 27 90
E-mail: info@versusproduction.be
Web: http://www.versusproduction.be

WORLD SALES:
PARADISE CITY SALES - Nicholas Kaiser, Alexandre Moreau, Jeanne Loriotti
50 Rue de Chabrol
75010 Paris, France
Tel: +33 1 53 34 90 33
E-mail: sales@paradisecity-films.com
Web: http://www.paradisecity-films.com

ITALIAN DISTRIBUTION:
01 DISTRIBUTION - Luigi Lonigro
Piazza Adriana 12
00193 Roma, Italy
Tel: +39 0633179601
E-mail: soniapisana.dichter@raicinema.it
Web: http://www.01distribution.it

PRESS OFFICE:
Martin Marquet
Tel: +33 677578280
E-mail: martin.marquet@me.com

ITALIAN PRESS OFFICE:
Manuela Cavallari - Fosforo
Tel: +39 3496891660
E-mail: manuela.cavallari@fosforopress.com

Giulia Santaroni – Fosforo Tel: +39.3488224581 E-mail: giulia.santaroni@fosforopress.com
Valerio Roselli – Fosforo Tel: +39.3357081956 E-mail: valerio.roselli@fosforopress.com


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