Bleecker Street has set a Dec. 6 nationwide release of The Return, which reunites Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche for the first time since the 1996 multi-Oscar winner The English Patient. Overall it’s their third collaboration together counting the 1992 movie Wuthering Heights in which they both starred. In addition to the release date change, first look photos of the epic were unveiled.
Directed by Uberto Pasolini, The Return follows Odysseus (Fiennes) who washes up on the shores of Ithaca after 20 years away; haggard and unrecognizable. The King has returned from the Trojan War, but much has changed in his kingdom. His beloved wife Penelope (Binoche) is a prisoner in her own home, hounded by suitors vying to be king. Their son Telemachus (Charlie Plummer) faces death at the hands of these suitors, who see him as merely an obstacle to their pursuit of the kingdom. Odysseus has also changed—scarred by his experience of the Trojan war, he is no longer the mighty warrior from years past— but he must rediscover his strength to win back all he has lost.
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