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The Return Movie (2024) Featurette - Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche (2024) - Trailer - US Release Date: December 6, 2024
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Charlie Plummer
Director : Uberto Pasolini
Synopsis: After 20 years away, Odysseus (Ralph Fiennes) washes up on the shores of Ithaca, haggard and unrecognizable. The King has returned from the Trojan War, but much has changed in his kingdom. His beloved wife Penelope (Juliette Binoche) is a prisoner in her own home, hounded by suitors vying to be king. Their son Telemachus faces death at the hands of these suitors, who see him as merely an obstacle to their pursuit of the kingdom. Odysseus has also changed--scarred by his experience of the Trojan war, he is no longer the mighty warrior from years past--but he must rediscover his strength in order to win back all that he has lost.
Transcript
00:01The character of Odysseus has always resonated with me.
00:04This is a distillation of the last chapters of the Odyssey.
00:08I'm a return of Odysseus to Ithaca.
00:10Odysseus sailed to Troy years ago.
00:13All year, suitors have been turning up,
00:15waiting for his widow to choose a new husband to be king.
00:18Juliet Binash is playing Penelope, his wife, who's waited for him.
00:21Odysseus is dead.
00:23Not to me.
00:24This is a man who's a fighter,
00:26but Homer makes him the smart guy.
00:28And quite quickly, he is scheming.
00:31Our king Odysseus, the smartest of all the heroes.
00:34I really enjoyed the adventure.
00:36And it's such a big, epic, important story.
00:39It's everything you want.
00:41Homer is full of extraordinary descriptions of violence.
00:47But Homer's powerful because he's symbolic.
00:50The journey to Ithaca is inside you.
00:52It's a journey of self-realization to become who you need to be.
00:58COMING SOON