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Dry retelling of the Odyssey – but Fiennes is ripped: The Return reviewed

Binoche and Fiennes are spellbinding but I ended up longing for a Cyclops or at least a six-headed monster

Deborah Ross
Sensationally ripped: Ralph Fiennes as Odysseus 
EXPLORE THE ISSUE 12 April 2025
issue 12 April 2025

Uberto Pasolini’s The Return stars Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche in a retelling of the last section of Homer’s Odyssey. He is Odysseus and she is Penelope in a stripped-back tale that presents the pair as psychologically plausible human beings rather than characters from Greek myth. Fiennes and Binoche are, of course, spellbinding.

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