The Return

The Return

Director: Uberto Pasolini
Country: Italy, United Kingdom

German Premiere
2024 | 116 min. | English
Subtitles: German
FSK | Nicht geprüft / No clearance

Cast_ Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Charlie Plummer, Marwan Kenzari, Claudio Santamaria Screenplay_ John Collee, Edward Bond, Uberto Pasolini Camera_ Marius Panduru Producer_ Uberto Pasolini, James Clayton, Roberto Sessa, Konstantinos Kontovrakis Rights_ The Festival Agency

Godless: Uberto Pasolini’s adaptation of the “Odyssey” focuses on people and their emotions. With Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche in top form.

Penelope (Binoche) is trapped inside her house, besieged by suitors who want to be the new king. When her husband Odysseus (Fiennes) returns home after decades of war and wandering, he remains incognito, a stranger to his subjects and his family. Odysseus suffers from PTSD – a broken man wrestling with his inner demons.

Pasolini psychologizes the myth, reading the demigod as a pre-modern Rambo. To realize his vison, he re-unites the two stars from ›The English Patient‹. Great actors’ cinema that distils the “Odyssey”, turning it into a parable about war and its irreversible consequences.

Director

Uberto Pasolini began his professional career as an investment banker before switching to producing films. In 1997, he produced the Oscar-nominated hit ›The Full Monty‹. He made his directorial debut in 2008 with ›Machan‹, which won awards at numerous international festivals. ›The Return‹ is his fourth directorial work.

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