Excellent performances and spectacle, with Odysseus facing a parade of hostile wonders. The design of the Cyclops, with his twisted nose and eye, is marvelously creepy. You find yourself feeling a little sympathy even for the Cyclops and Circe, as you glimpse the humanity beneath the monster.
It all builds up to a thundering final fight scene in the king’s palace on Ithaca, and a rumination on what cleverness can cost. It’s three hours absorbingly spent.
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