The scathing review of Christopher Nolan’s film, which in turn prompted Emily Wilson to reflect on the complexity, grandeur and enduring appeal of Homer’s epic and its protagonist. Yet the British director also has his merits, which should not be underestimated

His mind and hands are devoted to an art form that has been in his family since 1877, when the first puppeteers of the Puzzo family established it in Syracuse: “These days, being a puppeteer also means being an entrepreneur. Passion alone isn’t enough; it takes nothing less than devotion.” Interview

Cold as a luxury, a craft, an archive and a desire. A material that is anything but ‘dead’, with a history of commercial triumphs, domestic revolutions and contemporary obsessions. The journeys of an impossible commodity

The author pretends to have discovered this manuscript as if it belonged to someone else and to have brought it to light. In fact, it is his own, and the protagonist is a Cavalcanti, but we do not know where he is leading us