Ralph Fiennes is enjoying quite a cinematic year, first thanks to Conclave and now courtesy of The Return, an intense adaptation of The Odyssey in which he plays Homer’s mythic hero, who washes ashore on his native Ithaca a broken and traumatized lost soul.

The very real relationship between Fiennes and Binoche adds depth to their characters’ rejoining. “The fact that we have this friendship brings a background and you feel it in the film,” she says. “We didn’t have to work too much [at it].”

From the small screen to the big screen to the land of the forgotten.

In director Uberto Pasolini’s take on Homer’s ‘Odyssey,’ the drama is an intimate human story stripped of gods and monsters.

Twenty-eight years after "The English Patient," Juliette Binoche and Ralph Fiennes have reunited for "The Return."