ECOS/ ECHOES

Spain, 2020, 86 minutes, Colour.

Jordi Vilches, Andrea Martos, Ken Appledornl, Ruth Armas, Nieves Bravo. Lamberto Guerra, Tommy Llorenz.

Directed by Tommy Llorenz.

Ecos is a film for a specialist audience. It is ruminative and reflective. And it might be described as pre-apocalyptic.

The film introduces a range of characters, quick portraits, eventually bringing a number of the characters together on La Palma. There is a young man at a hostel, waking, having breakfast, wandering, having come there to assess his life. He encounters a young woman sitting, interested in not interested in him, especially in his provocative manner. She listens, talks, walks away, returns. Then there is the American traveller, tourist, encountering a young woman dressed in white, mystical, but cannot relate to how and leaves her. There is a middle-aged man playing happily with his son. There is an older man, meeting a woman, his goes back to her house, seen running along the street.

At the top of the hill, there is something of a shrine, a gathering place, and some of the characters moved towards that, the tourist having conversation with the older man.

However, no one is to leave the island because the Apocalypse is about to descend, a huge storm, a tidal wave, which will sweep over the island and all the characters.