
The Return
- Wed, Feb 19
Director: Uberto Pasolini Run Time: 116 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2024
Starring: Charlie Plummer, Juliette Binoche, Marwan Kenzari, Ralph Fiennes
Presented in Association with the American Repertory Theater
Special Introduction by A.R.T. Staff.
After twenty years away, Odysseus washes up on the shores of Ithaca, haggard and unrecognizable. The king has finally returned home, but much has changed in his kingdom since he left to fight in the Trojan war.
In celebration of the new production of The Odyssey which is soon to open at the Loeb Drama Center (Feb 9–Mar 16), we are excited to team up with our friends from the American Repertory Theater for film screenings that explore Homer’s epic (and epically influential) tale. Approaching the text from a contemporary point of view while still involving mythically inspired staging, the acclaimed writer and adaptor Kate Hamill (Sense & Sensibility) eschews some of the traditional heroics of Odysseus’s return asking if those changed by the ‘hero’s journey’ can ever really go back home. Learn more about the production at americanrepertorytheater.org.