The Return

Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche dominate the screen in director Uberto
Pasolini’s elegant, restrained and deeply physical adaptation of Homer’s second
epic. It has been 20 years since Odysseus (Fiennes) left his wife Penelope
(Binoche), son and his kingdom to fight in the Trojan war. Physically exhausted
and emotionally weary he returns to Ithaca to find suitors demanding his wife
re-marry, and gradually he finds his way back into his own court to confront his
rivals, his wife and his past. A powerful and striking film, driven by Fiennes’
physically and emotional depth.