While fanboys anxiously await Christopher Nolan’s recently announced new film of The Odyssey, Uberto Pasolini has already been there, done that, reuniting English Patient lovers Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche to boot. Not that Pasolini gives us the whole Homeric nine yards; rather, he strips the tale to its sober homecoming. A soldier, Oysseus (a sinewy, muscular Fiennes) washes up on the shores of Ithaca after 20 years fighting abroad. Slowly, he reemerges to reclaim is wife Penelope (Binoche) and his throne…
There’s an inherent and sweeping tragedy to The Return that makes Pasolini’s film feel truly epic, namely in the ways the visual language of the film mourns the bloodshed that would otherwise thrill in a picture like this.
Zachary Lee, rogerebert.com
Less an epic poem than a showcase for two of cinema’s finest actors, The Return is visually bleak and emotionally gripping.
Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times
Uberto Pasolini
Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Charlie Plummer, Marwan Kenzari
UK/Italy
2024
English
Indigenous & Community Access
Credits
Screenwriter
John Collee, Edward Bond, Uberto Pasolini
Cinematography
Marius Panduru
Editor
David Charap
Original Music
Rachel Portman
Production Design
Giuliano Pannuti
Art Director
Dimitris Ziakas
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