The Odyssey
After the fall of Troy, Odysseus begins the long voyage home to Ithaca — a journey that will take him years.
Included as the most ambitious screen adaptation of Homer in decades. Chosen for scale held in service of a simple, ancient longing.
The Trojan War is over, and Odysseus, king of Ithaca, sets out across the sea for the home he left a decade earlier. Homer's poem charts the distance between a man and his household, measured in islands, losses and years. On Ithaca, his wife Penelope and son Telemachus wait without word. Christopher Nolan takes on the oldest homecoming story in Western literature at the largest possible scale.
- Christopher Nolan
- Matt DamonOdysseus
- Tom HollandTelemachus
- Anne HathawayPenelope
Curated adjacencies
02 / 03 admitted · 1 withheldEvery grouping names one axis of similarity — and the axes we refused. Pairings that could not be defended were withheld rather than filled in.
Similar in formal rigor and visual silence
Judged only on composition, light and the length of a held shot. Subject matter is irrelevant here.
Similar in narrative weight and withheld structure
Architecture as argument — information sequenced, denied, and left unresolved on principle.