2022 Directed by George Miller
A lonely and bitter British woman discovers an ancient bottle while on a trip to Istanbul and unleashes a djinn who offers her three wishes. Filled with apathy, she is unable to come up with one until his stories spark in her a desire to be loved.
Tilda Swinton Idris Elba Ece Yüksel Zerrin Tekindor Erdil Yaşaroğlu Kaan Guldur David Collins Alyla Browne Nicola Mouawad Angie Tricker Hayley Gia Hughes Jason Jago Seyithan Özdemir Burcu Gölgedar Berk Ozturk Ogulcan Arman Uslu Pia Thunderbolt Matteo Bocelli Lachy Hulme Megan Gale Jack Braddy Aamito Lagum Aiden Mckenzie Aska Karem Shakriya Tarinyawat Hugo Vella John Puckeridge-Webb Anna Adams James Dobbins Jones Show All…
FilmNation Entertainment Kennedy Miller Productions Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Elevate Production Finance Sunac
Trois mille ans à t'attendre, Три тысячи лет желаний, 3000 Years of Longing
A bittersweet modern fairy tale from one of cinema’s most bombastic virtuosos, George Miller’s “Three Thousand Years of Longing” might have some reservations about the 21st century — the movie often wrestles with the impact that science and technology might have on our ancient sense of wonder — but at the bottom of this tightly bottled epic sits a question that should resonate especially hard with people who have spent too many of the last 3,000 days stuck inside their homes with nothing but “content” to keep them company: Are stories enough to satisfy our lives?
Acclaimed narratologist Dr. Alithea Binnie (Tilda Swinton, as if “acclaimed narratologist Dr. Alithea Binnie” could possibly be played by anyone else), would like to…
It’s a lot of movie but loses sight of its characters beneath miles of meandering flashbacks and narration
I saw a 10 second teaser of this film and it looks like batshit Insanity. I'm in.
Sexier than Aladdin but still not sexy enough – enjoyed the big swing towards a dimension-shattering romance in the last third but got a wee bit lost on the way. Gorgeous visuals, epic visuals. Tilda Swinton you will be famous forever!
Of course a George Miller fantasy film has many fun moments and shows a curiosity throughout. Three Thousand Years of Longing, stars Idris Elba as a djinn who has existed (and foolishly fallen in love) since before the days of Sheba. Tilda Swinton is the woman who finds the bottle his sorcery has been trapped in — while at a narrative conference in Istanbul. Burned by love once and able to find current contentment, she is pragmatic in life and deep in academic thought on the importance of storytelling. She knows that wishes in fables always turn out wrong so she refuses to make a wish. But she is curious about his life and so, by telling his story of…
a literal visual masterclass unfortunately brought down by it's lack of a second draft script revision. if you just wanted to watch more insane visuals in the year of lord and savior 2022, you'll love this but if you expect great visuals AND a great story, you'll be left feeling somewhat mixed.
Idris fucking steals the show though.
Now that this film has played festivals and is beginning to screen for critics, I believe I'm safe in coming out with a few of my early thoughts on this film prior to it being completed. I got invited to its first ever test in front of an audience, I assume to gage the reaction of the public before its submission to Cannes. It was a wild ride, and a glorious flex of originality by George Miller, following what was probably the biggest hit of his career, "Mad Max: Fury Road." He could have done anything. Disney was probably throwing him Marvel scripts left and right. But no, this badass wanted to tell an epic love story about a repressed…
“A man tells his stories so many times that he becomes the stories. They live on after him, and in that way he becomes immortal.” Billy Crudup’s Will Bloom declares, Big Fish announces storytelling is the most sincere reflection of our lives. Through the lens of Tom Hank’s Forest Gump stories delicately echo American history and counterculture, Robert Zemeckis stresses storytelling is a relentless portrait of knowledge. Irrfan Khan’s Pi Patel’s stories underscore humans perpetual need for spiritual enlightenment, Life of Pi’s prose effortlessly insists storytelling is the driving force behind human nature. Despite the intimacy of its setting Three Thousand Years of Longing’s glorious ambition marries The Tragedy of Man’s discretions with Her’s romantic melancholy, a definite departure from…
That weird girl reading teen fantasy books in the school cafeteria would fucking love this
