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After 20 years, Odysseus finally returns to Ithaca, where he finds his wife held captive by suitors claiming the throne, and his son is threatened with death at their hands. To bring back his family and everything he lost, Odysseus must regain his strength. For the third time, Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche are filming together in one film. Earlier, they worked together on the films “Stormy Pass” (1992) and “The English Patient” (1996). Penelope: How can men find their way to war, but not find their way home? Odysseus: For some, war becomes home. Focused on immersing the viewer in the multifactorial pain and suffering of Penelope and Odysseus during Odysseus’ return home to Ithaca, this treatise appears to be a fairly systematic exploration of the problems many soldiers face when returning from active duty, including post-traumatic stress disorder and other issues with mental health, reintegration into one’s former life with family and society, as well as memories and pain, as experienced, both caused and internal changes arising as a result, which are irreversible. “The Return” is supported by a great selection of actors, which allows the viewer to feel this roller coaster on which the two main characters go to significant heights, the latter due to the unique and special endurance of both Penelope and Odysseus at this difficult time in their lives, and without support each other. In fact, the two stay pretty far apart for most of the build-up, which only makes the catharsis more powerful in the most intense, thriller-like last part of an otherwise slower film. Fiennes brings his unique style of depicting suffering to this work, a great extension of his remarkable skill set from his related depictions of pain and suffering in The Spider and The End of the Novel. Binoche is the perfect choice for Penelope, as the viewer can be somewhat tricked into feeling and hoping that the two will reunite in much the same way that they were close throughout The English Patient, and Pasolini uses this to create an additional tension in this work in those whose memories of “The English Patient” are vivid. This is a great and very relevant work that needs to be experienced!

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