17/12

To win back his family and all that he has lost, Odysseus must rediscover his strength

Synopsis

After 20 years, Odysseus finally returns to Ithaca, where he finds his wife held captive by suitors vying to become king and his son facing death at their hands.

This is the third time Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche have starred together in a film, having previously worked together on The English Patient and Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights

Focused on immersing the viewer in the multi-faceted pain and suffering of Penelope and Odysseus during Odysseus’ return home to Ithaca, this treatise sought to explore quite systematically the challenges that many soldiers face upon returning from active service, including PTSD and other mental health issues, reintegration into their former lives with family and society, and flashbacks of memories and pain both endured and inflicted, and the resulting internal change that is irreversible.

In fact both are kept quite apart for most of the build-up, which only makes the catharsis more powerful in the later more intense and thriller-like part of the otherwise slower film

The Return is fueled by a great cast choice to allow the viewer to experience this rollercoaster ride of the two key protagonists to significant heights, the latter due to the unique and particular resilience of Penelope and Odysseus at this difficult time in their lives, and without each other’s support.

Fiennes brings his own unique style of portraying suffering to this work, a great extension of his wonderful skills from his adjacent portrayals of pain and anguish in Spider and The End of the Affair

Binoche is the perfect choice for Penelope as the viewer might be somewhat fooled into feeling and hoping that the two will reunite in much the same way they were close during The English Patient, and Pasolini exploits this to create further tension in this work for those whose memory of The English Patient is vivid.

This is a great and very relevant work that must be experienced!

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