ST. ALi Italian Film Festival Closing Night Reception: The Echo Chamber

With a Campari Spritz and Connoisseur Gourmet Ice Cream on arrival. Direct from competing at the 2026 Venice International Film Festival, The Echo Chamber is a spellbinding romantic drama about time and memory starring Alicia Vikander, Luca Marinelli and Susan Sarandon. Directed by Italian filmmaker Andrea Pallaoro and featuring a score composed by Academy Award winner Clément Ducol, this final work of Bernardo Bertolucci, who wrote the story and screenplay with Ilaria Bernardini and Ludovica Rampoldi, follows a love story where the boundaries between presence and absence, care and dependence, desire and control blur until they dissolve. In an endless cycle of longing and separation, intimacy and distance, Leo and Anne chase each other, but as they drift apart and search for their way back, they cannot let go nor break free. Meanwhile, songstress Ava’s voice echoes across time, bringing to the surface that which endures and can no longer be held back.

Listed by Palace Cinemas Brisbane