2019 · drama · anthology · portrait
Echo
Directed by Rúnar Rúnarsson1h 19m2019
Through 56 independent scenes, Echo draws a portrait, both biting and tender, of modern day Iceland during the often turbulent but also exciting time of the Christmas holidays.
Our read: Echo (2019) reads as a sombre, measured, inventive drama · anthology · portrait entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, measured, measured drama / anthology, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- measured
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How Echo feels to watch.
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What watching it is actually like.
“You want tender episodic vignettes of ordinary Icelanders at Christmas time.”
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