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2024 drama film by Uberto Pasolini

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Edward Bond

Uberto Pasolini

Based onThe Odyssey<br>by Homer<br>Produced by<br>Uberto Pasolini

Roberto Sesso

Giorgos Karnavas

Konstantinos Kontovrakis

Stéphane Moatti

Romain Le Grand

Vivien Aslanian

Marco Pacchioni

Starring<br>Ralph Fiennes

Juliette Binoche

Charlie Plummer

CinematographyMarius PanduruEdited byDavid CharapMusic byRachel PortmanProduction<br>companies

Red Wave Films

HanWay Films

Heretic

Picomedia

Rai Cinema

Kabo Films

Marvelous Production

Distributed byModern Films (United Kingdom)<br>01 Distribution (Italy)Release dates

September 7, 2024 (2024-09-07) (TIFF)

January 30, 2025 (2025-01-30) (Italy)

April 11, 2025 (2025-04-11) (United Kingdom)

Running time<br>116 minutes[1]Countries<br>Italy

Greece

United Kingdom

LanguageEnglishBox office$3.2 million[2][3]<br>The Return is a 2024 drama film directed by Uberto Pasolini and starring Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche. The film is a retelling of the second half of Homer's Odyssey as adapted by Edward Bond, John Collee, and Pasolini.

It premiered in the Gala section at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 7, 2024, and was theatrically released on December 6, 2024, in the United States by Bleecker Street. It was released in the UK and Ireland on April 11, 2025, by Modern Films, with event screenings in advance at the British Museum on April 9 and Curzon Mayfair on April 10.

Plot<br>[edit]

Twenty years after setting off to fight in the Trojan War and surviving many trials, Odysseus washes up naked on the shores of his home island Ithaca. He is found and tended to by the slaves Eumaeus and Yias. Odysseus is dispirited and traumatized by his experiences and learns about the decline of his kingdom.

Odysseus' wife Penelope faces pressure to find a suitor, given that many believe her husband to be dead. Her son Telemachus is approached by the nobleman Antinous, who attempts to convince him to press Penelope into marriage. The young man refuses, distrusting Antinous and the other suitors.

Meanwhile, Penelope weaves her elderly father-in-law's burial shroud before his impending death. Telemachus asks her to take a suitor to end the chaos, but she refuses until she completes the shroud. Odysseus' father dies; the suitors interrupt his funeral to threaten Penelope and her son unless a decision is made. Penelope fends them off by saying that now, she must weave a cloak for her wedding and only then will she choose.

Meanwhile, Eumaeus takes Odysseus to the palace, where the hunting dog Argos recognizes his master after a long wait and then dies. Odysseus poses as a beggar to ask for alms; the suitors abuse him. They force him to fight a huge man, but Odysseus kills him. Suspicious, Penelope speaks to Odysseus but ends up ordering him to be tended to and sent off after he refuses to answer her questions.

Odysseus' old nursemaid Eurycleia discovers his identity while bathing him, after recognizing a scar on the back of his leg. He bids her be silent. Antinous persuades the suitors to form a hunting party and kill Telemachus while he's out walking in the woods, but Odysseus intervenes and reveals himself to his son. Odysseus, Telemachus, and Eumaeus flee, while Yias is killed by the suitor Eurymachus. Failing to find their quarry, the hunting party returns to the palace. Both Telemachus and Eumaeus rebuke Odysseus for his cowardice and question why he would even bother to return, having heard rumors that he abandoned Penelope to live with another woman.

Antinous discovers Penelope...