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Juliette Binoche and Ralph Fiennes Get Tearful Speaking About Reuniting for Uberto Pasolini’s Homer Epic ‘The Return’: ‘It Was Destiny’
Returning to Greece with the historical drama 'The Return' proved an emotional affair for Juliette Binoche, Ralph Fiennes and Uberto Pasolini.
Binoche plays Penelope, Odysseus’ wife who spent two decades defending the family’s legacy and now finds herself a prisoner in her own home. When asked how pertinent her portrayal of Penelope felt for contemporary women, Binoche called her character “a very modern woman even though she is an archetype.” “She is not the submissive wife, she has her own journey in a sort of desperation. The patience that that woman had to have for him to come back is huge, and if we can make a parallel with what is happening in the world right now, the feminine side of ourselves has to wish that this need to conquer will change, will transform.
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