The Odyssey (15): 14th to 16th & 21st to 23rd August

Following the brutal fall of Troy, the brilliant but war-weary commander Odysseus begins a tumultuous, decade-long journey home to Ithaca, cast adrift into a treacherous expanse where he must outwit legendary horrors to survive. Meanwhile, back in his besieged palace, Queen Penelope and their son Telemachus must rely on their own sharp wits to protect the throne from a ruthless horde of power-hungry suitors led by the cruel Antinous. Reframing Homer’s ancient oral poem through a visceral modern lens, director Christopher Nolan delivers a monumental exploration of human endurance and post-war disillusionment, proving that surviving the journey home is only half the battle.

“This is a film with thrilling ambition, boldness, seriousness, generosity and flair. Christopher Nolan reinvents the Homeric legend as a colossal origin-myth story of post-war disillusion, an epic ordeal of anguish witnessed by the dead and presided over by capricious deities who participate on almost equal terms with the humans. It speaks to the generational pain of PTSD.” – The Guardian