Nolan’s latest film, The Odyssey, is an episodic tale of Odysseus’s journey home after the Trojan War

Christopher Nolan's 2020 film Tenet a journey backwards, forwards and laterally through time was no triumph by the director’s own exacting standards.

Now the auteur sits at the very height of his power, with more freedom than ever to make whatever he wants.

The Odyssey is an episodic tale of Odysseus 's long journey home to Ithaca , his wife, father, son and dog after the Trojan War .

The increasing cultural power of the online right might make Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey a well-timed project.

The director, whose work is consumed by the distorting of reality and time, has found a perfect subject.

Its Homeric ideals of glory, agency and heroism will be devoured by them as vindication of their political project.