I don't know how you feel when you look at it from there, but when you look at it from my POV-Middle Eastern and underprivileged- the only character I felt close to was the poor little dog hiding under the seat with panic and fear in the one of the last scenes. If we think of the film metaphorically as a narrative Christmas tree; indeed the worst Christmas decoration in the world is people, especially if they are from privileged countries.

I don't know how you feel when you look at it from there, but when you look at it from my POV-Middle Eastern and underprivileged- the only character I felt close to was the poor little dog hiding under the seat with panic and fear in the one of the last scenes. If we think of the film metaphorically as a narrative Christmas tree; indeed the worst Christmas decoration in the world is people, especially if they are from privileged countries.

First of all, if we ignore some questionable comments the movie has I can say that it has some interesting moments, like some where I would have liked them to be more than 2 minute vignettes because I was genuinely interested to know what was going on.

First of all, if we ignore some questionable comments the movie has I can say that it has some interesting moments, like some where I would have liked them to be more than 2 minute vignettes because I was genuinely interested to know what was going on.

Ruined Christmas for me.

Ruined Christmas for me.

Nice slice of life vignettes from modern day Iceland. Felt like you were passing these moments on the street or looking in windows. No story. Just moments. A sense of time and place.

Nice slice of life vignettes from modern day Iceland. Felt like you were passing these moments on the street or looking in windows. No story. Just moments. A sense of time and place.

La película de Rúnnarson apuesta por un mosaico lleno de detalles casi imperceptibles donde la incomunicación, los gestos y el absurdo son la norma, sin llegar de todos modos a las formas de Roy Andersson. Aún así, la frialdad (disculpen la obviedad) de la propuesta puede hacer que los resultados sean algo opacos y crípticos: poco empeño pone el director en que encajemos alguna pieza, ya que no hay nada que encajar, convirtiendo a Echo en una película que a veces puede pecar de arbitraria, dejando al espectador a su suerte y a la merced de su paciencia.


https://www.cineenserio.com/festival-de-valladolid-2019-arab-blues-and-then-we-danced-y-echo/

La película de Rúnnarson apuesta por un mosaico lleno de detalles casi imperceptibles donde la incomunicación, los gestos y el absurdo son la norma, sin llegar de todos modos a las formas de Roy Andersson. Aún así, la frialdad (disculpen la obviedad) de la propuesta puede hacer que los resultados sean algo opacos y crípticos: poco empeño pone el director en que encajemos alguna pieza, ya que no hay nada que encajar, convirtiendo a Echo en una película que a veces puede pecar de arbitraria, dejando al espectador a su suerte y a la merced de su paciencia.


https://www.cineenserio.com/festival-de-valladolid-2019-arab-blues-and-then-we-danced-y-echo/