Matt Damon refuses to put body in ‘dangerous’ situations for Hollywood roles after turning 50

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Throughout his career, Christopher Nolan has taken on big stories — though especially those of men, their struggles and their wars — and bent them to his virtuosic will.

Not content with constructing narratives that run backwards – or whatever was meant to be happening in 2020 sci-fi thriller Tenet – his big-budget adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey gambles that he can take one of the oldest stories in Western culture and make it feel new.

There are touches of ‘Oppenheimer’, ‘Memento’ and even his Batman movies in this enormous condensing of the British filmmaker’s fixations, brought to life by a cast of seemingly thousands – but it’s the women (among them Anne Hathaway and Samantha Morton) who steal the show