Known for a cinema that highlights emotional isolation, identity and self-reconstruction and focuses on the body as an emotional landscape, it’s his masterwork sophomore feature that truly put him on the map. Italian filmmaker Andrea Pallaoro saw his debut Medeas premiere in the Orizzonti section at the Venice Film Festival in 2013. Four year later with Hannah (read ★★★★ review), the film won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress for Charlotte Rampling. Five years later he returns to the Lido with 2022’s Monica (read ★★★½ review) starring Trace Lysette and Patricia Clarkson. Here is everything we know so far … for Andrea Pallaoro’s The Echo Chamber.
Back around the time that Bernardo Bertolucci passed away we learned shortly after via the trades that there was one last unfinished project that he was working on beforehand. Approximately seven years later, the producers had Pallaoro in their sights and set up on a project that works with a simple physical parameters – two characters in a three-room house. The project was being offered to buyers at TIFF just prior with an alluring trio of players.
Written by Bertolucci, Ludovica Rampoldi and Ilaria Bernardini, this is about a man, a woman, an apartment where an affair takes place.
The fairly alluring trio includes Alicia Vikander, Susan Sarandon, and Luca Marinelli.
Invaluable producers Francesca Cima and Nicola Giuliano backed the project. Production Designer Gaspare De Pascali was enlisted and Clément Ducol offers the film’s score.
With production taking place in late 2025 and the Venice Film Festival looking to programme Italian productions for the Golden Lion line-up. All three of his films have dropped on the Lido.
