Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022)

Directed by

George Miller

Genre

drama film, fantasy film, epic film, romance film, melodrama, speculative fiction film

Country

Australia, United States

Runtime

1h 48m

Rated

R

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 1,684 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A scholar finds an ancient bottle containing a djinn. He tells her stories from his long past as she decides whether to wish for something.

romanticfantasticalstory-heavycontemplativevisually opulentintimateepisodicwhimsicalyearning

What happens

Three Thousand Years of Longing is a 2022 romantic fantasy drama film directed and produced by George Miller. Written by Miller and Augusta Gore, it is based on the 1994 short story "The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye" by A. S. Byatt and follows a djinn (Idris Elba) who is unleashed from a bottle by a professor (Tilda Swinton) and tells her stories from his thousands of years of existence. The film stars Idris Elba, Aska Karem, Matteo Bocelli, Aamito Lagum, Sarah Houbolt, Lachy Hulme, and Tilda Swinton. The film is dedicated to Miller's mother Angela, as well as Rena Mitchell, relative of producer Doug Mitchell. The film premiered out of competition at the 75th Cannes Film Festival on May 20, 2022. It was released theatrically in the United States on August 26, 2022, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures (via United Artists Releasing), and in Australia on September 1, 2022, by Roadshow Entertainment. It received generally positive reviews from critics, who praised its visuals and performances, but was a box-office bomb, grossing $20.3 million against a budget of $60 million. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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