🎬 Movie

Odysseus returns home after twenty years away. But the Ithaca he remembers is gone. In place of a kingdom, ruins; instead of subjects, unfamiliar faces. His wife Penelope is said to have died long ago, and his son Telemachus does not recognize the father before him. In this reimagining of the Homeric epic by Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-liang, myth becomes an intimate 2025 drama about loss, memory, and the impossibility of homecoming. The film explores not the hero's deeds, but his quiet tragedy—a man trapped between a past that no longer exists and a present that rejects him. Shots of frozen time, empty interiors, and silent glances paint a portrait of the eternal exile in his own house.