Espresso martinis, Greek charcuterie, and a fight: inside my surreal 4 a.m. screening of 'The Odyssey'

Demand for 'The Odyssey' in Imax 70mm is so high that the BFI Imax in London is screening it through the night. Georgia Hennessy I attended a 4 a.m. screening of Christopher Nolan's adaptation of 'The Odyssey' on Saturday. The cinema was buzzing, even at that early hour. The lack of sleep turned out to be a key ingredient for an incredibly immersive experience. There's no good time to discover you've misread your cinema ticket, but 3:20 a.m. on a Saturday outside the Imax in central London is a particularly bad one. The film began at 4:15 a.m., not 4 a.m., as I'd previously thought. Those were 15 minutes of sleep I'd never get back, on top of the meager five hours my partner and I had managed before I dragged us across the city in the dark.