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After 20 years, Odysseus finally returns to Ithaca and finds that his wife is being held captive by suitors fighting for the throne, and his son is in danger of death at their hands. To bring back his family and everything he lost, Odysseus must regain his strength. This is already the third time that Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche appear together in one film. Earlier, they worked together in the films “Stormy Pass” (1992) and “The English Patient” (1996). Penelope: How men can find a way to war, but not a way home? Odysseus: For some, war becomes home. Focused on immersing the viewer in the multifaceted pain and suffering of Penelope and Odysseus as Odysseus returns home to Ithaca, this treatise seemed to explore fairly systematically the problems faced by many soldiers returning from active duty, including post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental health issues. health reintegration into the previous life with family and society, as well as memories and pain, both experienced and caused, and resulting internal changes that are irreversible. The return is due to the excellent selection of actors, which allows the viewer to feel this roller coaster, on which the two main characters soar to significant heights, and the last of them – thanks to the exceptional and special endurance of both Penelope and Odysseus at this difficult time in their lives. life and without mutual support. In fact, for most of the action, the two are at a greater distance from each other, which only heightens the catharsis in the slower, more tense, thriller-like final part of the film. Fiennes brings to this work his unique style of depicting suffering, which is a significant development of his outstanding skill acquired in the related paintings of pain and suffering in the films “The Spider” and “The End of the Novel”. Binoche is the perfect choice for the role of Penelope, because the viewer can feel and hope that these two characters will become close in the same way that they were close throughout The English Patient, and Pasolini uses this to create additional tension in this theme work. whose Memoirs of the “English Patient” is alive. This is a wonderful and very important work that needs to be experienced!