The film draws on Virgil, Aeschylus and lost Greek epics as director turns the warrior’s journey home into a story of guilt, collapse and redemption

Monumental adaptation brings acclaimed director's career-long obsessions to their fullest expression

It's old-school, swords-and-sandals cinema, yet still modern and richly satisfying.

“This is a tale of a man affected by trauma, but without any sense that it changed him at all.”