Three Thousand Years of Longing
Sentimental, fantastical, and unabashedly moony, it’s a romance and a storytelling apologia all in one.
Three Thousand Years of Longing
Dr. Alithea Binnie (Tilda Swinton) is an academic -- content with life and a creature of reason. While in Istanbul attending a conference, she happens to encounter a Djinn (Idris Elba) who offers her three wishes in exchange for his freedom. This presents two problems. First, she doubts that he is real and second, because she is a scholar of story and mythology, she knows all the cautionary tales of wishes gone wrong. The Djinn pleads his case by telling her fantastical stories of his past. Eventually she is beguiled and makes a wish that surprises them both.
Genre
Drama,
Fantasy,
Romance
Runtime
109
Language
English
Director
George Miller
Writer(s)
George Miller,
Augusta Gore
Cast
Idris Elba,
Tilda Swinton
FEATURED REVIEW
Todd McCarthy, Deadline Hollywood Daily
When ranging out of 'Mad Max' territory, George Miller’s films are highly diverse and unpredictable in nature, and never has this proved more the case than with his time-traveling, narratively far-ranging new drama, 'Three Thousand Years of Longing.' In this Cannes Film Festival out-of-competition ...
Played at
Town Center 5 8.25.22 - 9.15.22
Claremont 5 8.25.22 - 9.15.22
Newhall 8.25.22 - 9.15.22
Glendale 8.25.22 - 9.15.22
NoHo 7 8.25.22 - 9.15.22
Monica Film Center 8.25.22 - 9.15.22
Firehouse Theater 8.26.22 - 9.08.22
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