The Odyssey
About the event
What to do after the success of Oppenheimer? Director Christopher Nolan read up on his classics and adapted Homer’s epic about Odysseus’ ten years at sea, returning home after conquering Troy. Matt Damon plays Odysseus. Filmed using the spectacular IMAX® 70mm technology, on view at Eye at 70mm. In Nolan’s version of Homer’s epic about Odysseus, it is the all-American Matt Damon who plays the tormented hero. After successfully destroying arch-rival Troy, Odysseus and his men spend a decade journeying home to Ithaca, where his wife Penelope waits. During this time, they are subject to many trials and tribulations, including the cyclops Polyphemus, the seductive Sirens, the passage between Scylla and Charybdis, as well as the evil sorceress Circe. And, once he is finally back home, he…
