The Return (15)

Director: Uberto Pasolini

Starring: Ralph Fiennes & Juliette Binoche

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Duration: 116 mins
AGE Rating: Cert 15
Adults £10

★★★★  “A lean and lethally effective adaptation… Two of the greatest living actors nailing two of the most iconic roles”: The Times 

★★★★ “The stars of The English Patient are reunited to electric effect in Uberto Pasolini’s handsome retelling of the Odyssey”: Wendy Ide, The Observer

★★★★ “[a] raw and urgent drama…Juliette Binoche and Ralph Fiennes bring fierce class to elemental Odyssey adaptation”: Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

After 20 years away, Odysseus (Fiennes) washes up on the shores of Ithaca, haggard and unrecognizable. The King has returned home but much has changed in his kingdom since he left to fight in the Trojan war. His beloved wife Penelope (Binoche) is a prisoner in her own home, hounded by her many ambitious suitors to  choose a new husband, a new king.

Their son Telemachus, who has grown up fatherless, is facing death at the hands of the suitors who see him as an obstacle in their relentless pursuit of Penelope and the kingdom. Odysseus has changed too. Scarred by his experience of war, he is no longer the mighty warrior his people remember. But he is forced to face his past in order to rediscover the strength needed to save his family and win back the love he has lost.