Pallaoro's 'Echo Chamber' Gets 8-Minute Venice Ovation — SkimNews
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- The Echo Chamber earned an eight-minute standing ovation at its world premiere Sunday evening at the Venice Film Festival.
- Andrea Pallaoro directed the film, which is competing for the Golden Lion.
- Alicia Vikander, Luca Marinelli, and Susan Sarandon star in the film, with cross-coverage centering on the Vikander–Marinelli pairing.
- The screenplay is Bernardo Bertolucci's final one, which he was fine-tuning before his passing.
- IndieWire's review frames the film as a 'brooding addiction romance' and calls Marinelli and Vikander 'sublime.'
Why it matters: A posthumous Bertolucci screenplay reaching the Golden Lion competition at Venice — greeted with eight minutes of ovation — sets an early benchmark for the festival and lets audiences judge whether the late master's last written work translates to screen under Pallaoro's direction.
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