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The Guardian
13-04-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
The Return review – Ralph Fiennes's Homeric hero finds his way home to outstanding Juliette Binoche
The story may have been told many times before, but Uberto Pasolini's sombre, handsome interpretation of Homer's Odyssey has a few things going for it. The location – Corfu, shot with a tawny late-summer glow, doubling for Ithaca – is one. But the main draw is the cast, with Ralph Fiennes sinewy and racked by self-doubt and guilt as Odysseus, returned from war after a 20-year absence, and a compelling turn from Juliette Binoche as Penelope. Both are terrific, but Binoche is the standout. The camera rests on her face when she first realises that the dishevelled vagrant is her missing husband: the turmoil of pain, fury and anguished love that Binoche conveys with her eyes alone is almost too intense to watch. In UK and Irish cinemas
The Guardian
31-03-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
A golden example of trickle-down economics
Your report on the revival of gold mining in north Wales (Going for gold: coin marks hope of bringing Welsh mine back from the dead, 26 March)( made me recall a summer I spent camping in the area in the 1970s, when, in the village pub, I enjoyed the stories of locals who had worked in the mine. One theme was how the proceeds of illicitly siphoned gold had funded new houses in the locality. If true, this is perhaps one of the few examples of trickle-down economics in Kelly Little Raveley, Cambridgeshire Your interview with Bridget Christie highlights the feminist perspective of her work (Bridget Christie on brain fog, flirting, and why she won't be taking a lover: 'My heart is full. I am open to it, but I'm not looking for it', 29 March). It includes a reference to four other comedians – Daniel Kitson, James Acaster, Nish Kumar and Josie Long. In the online version, the first three all have links to other Guardian articles about them. Irony? Siân WilliamsFerndown, Dorset So the film-maker Uberto Pasolini thinks there were no gyms in ancient Greece ('At 60, the bulk of your life is lived. What's left now?' Ralph Fiennes and Uberto Pasolini on their ripped and radical take on The Odyssey, 28 March)? Someone should point out to him where the word 'gymnasium' comes BrewisBurnopfield, County Durham Given the name of Greenland's capital, I'm worrying that Donald Trump might accidentally trigger world war three if he says he's going to Nuuk at some point (Report, 28 March). Norman MillerBrighton, East Sussex Spotting this year's April fool may be harder in case it turns out to be a Trump BailyWest Bridgford, Nottinghamshire Have an opinion on anything you've read in the Guardian today? Please email us your letter and it will be considered for publication in our letters section.
