What does a spectacular backdrop give to – or maybe take from? – a music festival? Exit the Wigmore Hall and, however transcendent the performance, you find yourself gazing on a posh kitchen showroom. Nothing in the vicinity can compete with the music. Leave the Église Saint-Michel in Chamonix and the Mont Blanc range soars upwards with improbable drama, the perpetual snows of its summit girded by a squad of jagged, saw-toothed peaks.
The first word of The Iliad is “war”; the first word of The Odyssey is “man”. After that, the twists and turns of Homer’s epic poems veer in wildly different directions. It’s fitting, then, that cinematic adaptations are multi-faceted, too.
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