The Return

“Some legends are more than myths.”

Ithaca waits in the tenth year of Odysseus's (Ralph Fiennes) absence, his wife Penelope (Juliette Binoche) besieged by suitors who assume he is dead. A weathered man arrives at the island claiming to be the king, testing whether anyone will recognize him. Uberto Pasolini traces the slow, painful path of two people learning to be strangers to each other, even as they remain bound.