Susan Sarandon denounces professional pressure for her political opinions in Venice

"Silence is very dangerous, we should be able to say what we think without being threatened with never working again." The phrase was uttered by Susan Sarandon a few months ago in Spain on the occasion of her gratitude speech for the Goya of honor that the Film Academy gave her. This Sunday in Venice he insisted again. He did it not so much because of the film he was presenting, but in spite of it, or alongside it, or thanks to it. As you want. "Lately I have been removed from some projects because there are agencies that keep telling people not to hire me," he commented at the Lido as if it were a continuation of what he said in February in Barcelona. "But that's the way things are. I believe, yes, that outside of my country, I am welcome," she concluded.

The Echo Chamber is a story of love and pain. The Italian Andrea Pallaoro adopts the last of the scripts signed by Bernardo Bertolucci to reconstruct the relationship of passion and dependence, of sex and talks over wine, of presence and absence, of freedom and simple slavery between the characters played by Luca Marinelli and Alicia Vikander. The first is a music producer and the second is a nurse. The first suffers and the second calms. And in the middle, Susan Sarandon who gives life to a singer with the gesture and posture of an eternal myth; in cinema and in song. She is a widowed and alone woman who little by little learns to use suffering to create, which is how she calms, but does not heal, an unfathomable wound.

Sarandon stated this Sunday that they had warned Pallaoro not to work with her because of the bad consequences that it could have for him and for the film itself regarding its distribution in his country, a country, as he commented, "where the Zionist lobby still has a lot of strength." "That's why I thank Andrea for not heeding my warnings," he added.