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After 20 years, Odysseus finally returns to Ithaca, where he finds his wife captured by suitors vying to become king, and his son facing death at their hands. To regain his family and all he has lost, Odysseus must rediscover his strength… For the third time, Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche star in a film together. They previously worked together on Wuthering Heights (1992) and The English Patient (1996). Penelope: How can people find the way to war but not the way home? Odysseus: For some, war becomes their home. Focusing on immersing the viewer in the multifaceted pain and suffering of Penelope and Odysseus during the latter’s return to his home in Ithaca, this treatise reads like a systematic exploration of the challenges faced by many soldiers. returning from active service, including PTSD and other mental health issues, reintegration into their former lives with family and society, and the memories of the memories and pain suffered and caused, and the resulting internal change that is irreversible. The return is enhanced by a great casting selection that allows the viewer to live this roller coaster that the two key characters take to considerable heights, the latter thanks to the unique and particular resilience of Penelope and Odysseus at this difficult time in their lives, and without mutual support. In fact, both remain quite separated for most of the story, which only makes the catharsis more potent in the final, more intense and suspenseful part of an otherwise slower-paced film. Fiennes brings to this work his unique style of portraying suffering, a great extension of his wonderful skill from his portraits of pain and anguish in Spider and The End of the Affair. Binoche is the perfect choice for Penelope, as the viewer can be somehow tricked into feeling and hoping that the two will be reunited in the same way they were close in The English Patient, and Pasolini uses this to create an added tension in this play for those whose memory of The English Patient is vivid. This is an excellent and very relevant work that needs to be experienced!

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