Three Thousand Years Of Longing (2022)
Director: George Miller
Writer(s): George Miller, Augusta Gore, A.S. Byatt
Producer(s): Doug Mitchell, George Miller
Main Cast: Idris Elba, Tilda Swinston, Pia Thunderbolt
Writer(s): George Miller, Augusta Gore, A.S. Byatt
Producer(s): Doug Mitchell, George Miller
Main Cast: Idris Elba, Tilda Swinston, Pia Thunderbolt
Release Date: 2022-09-02
Age Rating: 16 D, L, N, SV
Runtime: 108 mins. / 1 h 48 m
Release Status: Complete
Age Rating: 16 D, L, N, SV
Runtime: 108 mins. / 1 h 48 m
Release Status: Complete
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.