The Return is a 2024 drama film directed by Uberto Pasolini and starring Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche.

The film is a retelling of the last sections of Homer's Odyssey as adapted by Edward Bond, John Collee, and Pasolini.

It premiered in the Gala section at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 7, 2024, and was theatrically released on December 6, 2024, in the United States by Bleecker Street.

Back on land, the same suitors go hunting a girl; finding her absent from her lover's tent, they rape and kill him.

Penelope tells the suitors her choice is to make them compete with Odysseus's old bow, seeing if they can shoot an arrow through multiple axe-heads' holes as he did.

Antinous surrenders, and Penelope, desirous of peace and tired of male violence, bids Telemachus let him live, but he kills him, horrifying his mother.

[5] In February 2023 Bleecker Street were announced to have picked up North American rights and have Andrew Karpen and Kent Sanderson executive producing on the project.

Roberto Sessa for Picomedia with Rai Cinema, Giorgos Karnavas and Konstantinos Kontovravkis for Heretic and Stéphane Moatti, Romain Le Grand, Vivien Aslanian and Marco Pacchioni for Kabo Films and Marvelous Production were also revealed as producers on the Italy-Greece-U.K.-France co-production.

[6] The film marks the third time Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche have appeared together following the 1996 Oscar winner The English Patient and 1992's Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights.

[8][9] The film began production in Greece in the spring of 2023, with principal photography in the regions of Corfu and the Peloponnese, before continuing on to locations in Italy.

[11] In July 2024, The Return was announced as part of the Gala section at the Toronto International Film Festival scheduled for September 2024.

The website's consensus reads: "The Return removes the mythology from Odysseus' homecoming along with some of the fun, but Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche's terrific performances keep this drama absorbing.

"[15] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 67 out of 100, based on 18 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.