
I’m in the Union Club in Soho with Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche discussing The Return, Uberto Pasolini’s film about Odysseus’s troubled reunion with his wife Penelope after 20 years’ absence.
It marks the two actors’ third cinematic collaboration following a best-forgotten Wuthering Heights in 1992 (Fiennes’s feature debut) and the career-making, multiple Oscar-winning romance The English Patient in 1996, in which Binoche’s vivacious Quebecois nurse tended Fiennes’s burnt Hungarian adventurer in a bombed Italian monastery.