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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Catherine Shoard

‘An absolute triumph’: first reactions to Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey are ecstatic

Matt Damon as Odysseus in leather armour stands in a misty encampment with ships behind him
Matt Damon in The Odyssey, ‘a colossal achievement of scale’. Photograph: Melinda Sue Gordon/Universal Pictures

The Odyssey, Christopher Nolan’s three-hour version of Homer’s epic poem, world premiered in London on Monday night, and critics who saw the film there and at early screenings in the US have been sharing their takes on one of the year’s most hotly anticipated films.

“Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey is a colossal origin-myth story of postwar disillusion and a loss of innocence witnessed by the dead,” wrote the Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw, ahead of the reviews embargo lifting next Wednesday and next Friday’s worldwide release.

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