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"The Return" tells an ancient story that still resonates today.

Consider This from NPR

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🗓️ 6 December 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

An epic poem and an epic reunion come to the big screen.

The Return looks for new meaning in Homer's ancient story of Odysseus' return to Ithaca — and to his wife Penelope.

We talk to co-stars Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche.

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0:00.0

Here's a story for you. A warrior king has just washed up on a beach. He's been gone for 20 years.

0:07.0

His wife, the queen, has been waiting, pining for his return, and this is all unfolding on the island of Ithaca.

0:15.0

Yes, we are talking about the Odyssey, the epic poem by Homer.

0:19.0

So many years. Why?

0:23.6

Would you still love the man I had become?

0:28.6

We couldn't return.

0:30.6

Forgive me.

0:32.0

That's a clip from the new film The Return,

0:35.0

starring Juliet Benosh as Queen Penelope and Ray Fines as King Odysseus.

0:40.9

The two have been separated by war and chaos for so many years.

0:46.3

When they finally come face to face, in Ithaca, it's a reunion in more ways than one.

0:52.2

For Odysseus and Penelope, of course,

0:54.6

but also for the actors who play them,

0:56.6

because it has been 28 years

0:58.6

since Fines and Benoche have shared the screen.

1:01.9

I'm still here.

1:05.9

You'd better be.

1:08.6

Don't depend on it, will you?

1:12.6

A little bit of air in my lungs.

1:16.5

Each day it gets less and less.

1:19.9

The 1996 drama, The English Patient.

1:23.1

That was the last time, Ray Sheins and Juliette Bonoche were co-stars.

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