Christopher Nolan's Masterpiece

Although accused of betraying Homer, Christopher Nolan has nonetheless created an adaptation of *The Odyssey* that is as spectacular as it is profound. Far from being a mere reenactment, his film resonates with the concerns of our time.

«Christopher Nolan didn’t understand a thing about the moral universe of *The Odyssey*,» according to historian Olivier Battistini. «A mishmash of wokism, moralizing, special effects, and a run-of-the-mill action movie,» according to commentator Eric Naulleau… While the general public was won over by this film adaptation, a minority of voices expressed outrage at the result, both in substance and form. As a subscriber to *Le Figaro*, well-versed in iconoclastic analyses and trained in classical studies, I might have been swayed by these criticisms, which came mainly from the right and Hellenistic circles. But that is not the case.

That Homer’s text, recounting ten years of