Ulysse est revenu (1978)
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Maxence Mailfort, Claude Jade, Catherine Alric, Antoine Campo, Cécile Paoli, Bruno Pradal
A missing actor playing Ulysses sends his assistant, who is really Athena, on a search that blurs myth and modern life.
The story
In the Marseille Metro, an actor rehearses his role as Ulysses and becomes drawn to a young woman using the pen name Calypso. He disappears, leaving the film crew waiting on the set, where he is both director and actor. His assistant, who is actually the goddess Athena, goes looking for him. Alongside this search, Athena interviews a Greek man whose family fled Greece in 1922 and who later built a life in Cameroon before returning to France. His story brings questions about returning to the land, organic farming, and the differences between rural and urban life into the film’s shifting search for Ulysses and Telemachus.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
In the Marseille Metro, an actor (Maxence Mailfort) rehearses his role as Ulysses. Drawn to a young woman whose pen name is Calypso, he disappears. The whole crew is waiting for him on the film set, where he is both director and actor. His assistant, who is in fact the goddess Athena (Claude Jade), sets out to look for him. At the same time, Athena interviews a Greek man. His parents fled Greece in 1922. He settled in Africa, where he started a business in Cameroon. Twenty years later, he returned to France, got married, and bought a farm in Roussillon (Vaucluse), where he practices organic farming and his wife weaves. The film discusses the importance of returning to the land, the benefits of organic farming, and the fundamental differences between farmers and city dwellers. The recurring theme is Athena and Ulysses’s search for Telemachus, who is also an actor and is interviewed by the journalist, alias Athena. She changes roles from one second to the next...
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