Right then. It's here.

We've known for a while that Christopher Nolan was shooting The Odyssey. We've been trying not to think about it too much to avoid ending up in the doctor's waiting room, and now that tickets go on sale today, we can't pretend we don't care — because we care very much. Because The Odyssey isn't just another Nolan film. It's the film Nolan has been making his whole career without knowing it.

Think about what he's done so far: Memento is a man who can't build memories, condemned to return to the same starting point over and over. Inception is a man trying to get home, to his children, through layers of reality. Interstellar is literally a father crossing the universe to be able to return. Dunkirk is the impossible homecoming turned into a collective miracle. Oppenheimer is a man who steps outside himself and can never go back.

Nostos. The Greek word for "homecoming." The heart of Homer's Odyssey. The secret theme running through Nolan's entire filmography. If you had to pick one filmmaker of his generation to adapt Homer, you'd pick him. And I'm guessing so would you.

But let's talk about what Homer proposes — and therefore what Nolan probably proposes: The Odyssey is not an epic of victory. It's an epic of endurance. Odysseus is not strong like Achilles, not invulnerable, not divine. He is cunning, adaptable, terribly human. And he pays a tremendous price for everything he achieves. What The Odyssey tells its reader — and what Nolan will tell his audience — is that the journey is not the problem. The journey is the film. And Nolan knows how to make a journey a physical experience.

We've programmed the Nolan Universe at CineCiutat because The Odyssey deserves to be seen having done the groundwork first. You don't need to have watched his entire filmography — although if you haven't seen Memento, we are seriously worried about you — but you do need his obsessions fresh in your mind: time that folds, identity that fractures, tension that doesn't let go until the final frame. So come to the premiere with your homework done.

Tickets are on sale now. Here are all the screenings. 

Choose us. Buy them. Do the homework, and come.