Director Stefan Schwietert gives all the artists and their work space to breathe, to reflect, and to clearly depict its import to them and their culture as well.

| Aug 9, 2018

. . .this is a gem of a film, profound, funny, odd, a wonderful surprise and sometimes surprise is simply one of the best things around.

| Aug 23, 2017

| Original Score: 0/5 | Jan 14, 2010

A more complex, beautiful film than one had dared to hope. I'll never giggle at yodelling again.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 10, 2009

Slightly stretched at 82 minutes, the film nevertheless makes a strong case for this high, wide and lonesome sound expressing the soul of the alpine landscape, beautifully captured by the aerial camerawork.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 10, 2009

This film is strange, but all the more rewarding for that. It will change your view of yodeling forever - and for the better.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 10, 2009

Echoes of Home is a feature-length musical documentary about the Swiss art of yodelling. Unintentionally titter-inducing in execution, yet deadly serious in conception.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 10, 2009

Intriguing - but some of the musicians are just the tiniest bit smug about how wackily offbeat they are.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 10, 2009

Some genuinely affecting moments punctuate their accounts, but overall this amiable documentary is as mad as a sackful of whippets.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 10, 2009

Performances are intercut with file footage, home videos and family photos, creating a mannered film language that, like the music it documents, links the present to the past in a series of echoes.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 10, 2009

Those who thought Alpine warbling ended with Julie Andrews as a nun (ie. all of us), get ready to open your ears, and your mind... and your mouth, as this yodelling malarky is catchy stuff.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 10, 2009

There's nothing dry about this study in tradition: Schwietert stresses the freedom and spontaneity in avant yelping, qualities his lead trio embrace with palpable passion.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 10, 2009

A music film best appreciated with earplugs firmly in place, it's not just the unholy sound that's a turn-off but its inability to tell us anything interesting. The result is dry, unilluminating and, frequently, ear-splitting.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 10, 2009

You probably couldn't stand an entire evening of Zehnder's music but the film offers a charming insight into a little known segment of world music.

| Jul 10, 2009

As an anthropological document, this film has huge value for examining a form of music that's usually ridiculed.... Sadly, the film isn't sharp enough to win over many new fans.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 10, 2009