Echo, directed by Amikan Kovner and Assaf
Shnir, is a compelling feature film about the relationship between a husband
and wife.
Avner is the supervisor of a construction crew, working on a
tunnel in Haifa. He is married to Ella,
a psychologist, and they have two children.
When a traffic ticket arrives in the mail with a photo of Ella driving
and a strange man sitting next to her, Avner becomes obsessed with the thought
that his wife might be cheating on him. He
begins taping her phone conversations, even following her. As he tries to understand
his wife, he listens to the phone conversations over and over, and begins to
realize that things were more complex than they seemed, that there was so much
about his wife that he didn’t understand.
The film has wonderful complexity – there is Avner’s
ambivalent relationship with his co-worker, the 12-year-old daughter’s newly
awakening sexual curiosity, the mother of Ella’s patient who committed suicide
more than a year ago, Ella’s need to be saved as she tosses off her clothes and
runs into the sea late one night.
Things unravel like a thriller, as Avner slowly works out
the secrets of Ella’s life.
Echo (2018, 98 minutes) is a complex and
sensitive film about a man obsessed who tries to work out whether we ever really know the person we love most in the
world. Are there hidden aspects to their
character, to their lives? In an apparently happy family, are there elements
that we keep hidden from one another?
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