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Underlining the senselessness of war
Odysseus’s homecoming myth is treated as a factual story, with strong resonances for our contemporary world. This is an implicit anti-war film that has an urgent relevance, writes JOHN GREEN
TOUR DE FORCE: for Ralph Fiennes as Odysseus
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KENNY MacASKILL relishes a fictionalised account of the life and death of the principled Irish anti-colonialist, executed for betraying his English imperial masters
FIONA O’CONNOR admires an ambitious first novel that loosens South Africa’s rainbow collective to examine the racial tensions within
Aussie mining corporation murder, Liverpudlian ex-cop amnesia, a naive vigilante tries to reset capitalism, and the riddle of the dead psychoanalyst
SYLVIA HIKINS is persuaded by an entertaining play that the true miracle of Lourdes would be for attitudes toward disability to change
JAMIE BRITTON recommends this fine analysis of the architectural, ecological and infrastructural destruction of the Gaza Strip
The Return
Directed by Uberto Pasolini
★★★★
STARRING Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche, The Return retells the story of Odysseus’s homecoming 20 years after waging war against the Trojans.
Based on Homer’s mythological tale, it has been adapted by Edward Bond, John Collee and Uberto Pasolini, who also directs.
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