THE RETURN
FLIM
There’d been a disastrous mishap with the superglue.
A NEW TAKE ON THE CLASSICS THAT ’S NOT QUITE A CLASSIC
★★★
OUT 11 APRIL / CERT 15 / 116 MINS
DIRECTOR Uberto Pasolini
CAST Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Charlie Plummer, Marwan Kenzari, Claudio Santamaria
PLOT Ten years after Troy’s fall, Odysseus (Fiennes) finally reaches his home Ithaca, where suitors are pressuring his wife Penelope (Binoche) to remarry.
WHILE WE WAIT to see Homer’s Odyssey as a big-budget Christopher Nolan blockbuster, Italian producer-director Uberto Pasolini brings us the low-budget, character-piece version. Rather than trying to mount a vast, effectspacked naval adventure featuring gods and monsters, Pasolini sticks to location-based terra firma, and focuses his narrative on the grizzled protagonist’s homecoming.