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To win back his family and all he has lost, Odysseus must rediscover his strength
After 20 years Odysseus finally returns to Ithaca, where he finds his wife imprisoned by suitors vying to become king and his son facing death at their hands. For the third time Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche have starred in a film together.
Odysseus: For some, war becomes home
They have previously worked together in Wuthering Heights (1992) and Engleski Pačić (1996).. Penelope: How can people find their way to war but not their way home?
The last act is the greatest poem in literature and better cinematically
This time the Homer portrait looks great and the director brings it. Thanks to Ralph and Julia, the greats who have great power to personify Penelope and Odysseus.
Anti-classical literature is so powerful
You can feel and touch the pain and lose them both -Odyssey unable to come home because of God’s will, tired and unsure of everything, Penelope having faith and having difficulty understanding the world of men' Desire dominates at any cost. The brutal killing scenes reveal to us that not much has changed….