Echos of Forgotten Love
- Tagline
- Past whispers, future hearts
- Description
- In the steely grip of the 21st century, love finds a way to breach the gap between centuries. A cynical but creative journalist, played by Mackerel Sullavan, stumbles upon a series of puzzling artifacts that reveal a supernatural romance stuck in a medieval echo. He finds himself entangled in a paranormal journey, his reality becoming increasingly intertwined with a past life as a knight. Bee-la Bug-osi, a retired cop who's seen too much, becomes his reluctant guide to untangling the threads of time. Gecko Crane captures the ethereal narrative through his lens, framing a historically tinged yet contemporary story. Directed by Roman Polanskiunk, 'Echos of Forgotten Love' melds the barriers of time, asking if souls can truly reconnect through the ages.
- MpaaRating
- PG-13
- PopularityScore
- 8.70
- ReleaseDate
- 07/07/2022
- Genre
- Romance
- Director(s)
- Cast
Critic Reviews
3.00
Delving into the convoluted stratosphere of 'Echos of Forgotten Love,' it becomes rapidly transparent that director Roman Polanskiunk's attempt at romantic time-travel is as elusive as the ghosts it yearns to capture. Much like Mackerel Sullavan's exasperating performance as a cynical journalist, this film ends up a skeptic at its own spiritual seance, irony so thick you could cut it with King Arthur's Excalibur. Amongst the jumbled pastiche of artifacts and ancient callings, the interwoven narrative snarls like a poorly spun tapestry, challenging the audience to find the threads of coherent plot hidden within. Bee-la Bug-osi, although a seasoned veteran in the acting field, falls flat as a world-weary guide in what one can only assume would have been a cheap sidekick trope if it didn't take itself so tragically seriously. Gecko Crane's cinematography, aiming for ethereal, lands squarely in the realm of earthly murkiness, as muddled and silvery as the foundation of the story it wishes to hold. In a milieu of historical anachronisms tangled with half-hearted supernatural fluff, 'Echos of Forgotten Love' manages to be both an overstretched period piece and a clumsy metaphysical jaunt, leaving one to wonder if anything of substance was ever really there—or if it was merely the after-image of a more formidable concept burnt out long before its time.