Three Thousand Years of Longing
George Miller (Mad Max: Fury Road) directs this romantic fantasy epic about a lonely woman who encounters a wish-granting djinn while holidaying in Instanbul. Starring Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba.
2022Rating: R108 minsUSAFilmNation Entertainment, Kennedy Miller Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
FantasyRomance
- Director:
- George Miller ('Mad Max', 'Mad Max: Fury Road')
- Writer:
- George Miller
- Cast:
- Tilda SwintonIdris ElbaDavid CollinsKaan Guldur
Three Thousand Years of Longing | Reviews
63%35 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® Score
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The Guardian
A consciously unfashionable fantasy about a wary academic and a chatty genie that may leave you wishing for more...
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Slash Film
A fairy tale with more in common with Babe than Mad Max, this movie reaffirms George Miller as one of the great magicians of cinema working today.
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The Irish Times
The sense that conventions of myth are being deconstructed is lost from Byatt’s original story, but there is enough flash here to dispel any boredom.
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Entertainment Weekly
It's a gentler, sadder movie than the dizzying trailer suggests, and less driven by plot than a stickler for storytelling like Alithea might prefer...
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Hollywood Reporter
(It) strains so hard for beguilement and timelessness that it’s ponderous and heavy.
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Vanity Fair
A curious film, messy in all its ambition but consistently transfixing, an earnest labour of love...
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IndieWire
A bittersweet modern fairy tale from one of cinema’s most bombastic virtuosos...
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Time Out
Despite a committed Idris Elba and a winning dash of fantasy, George Miller’s romantic fairy tale fails to spark...
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Little White Lies
There will be many people for whom it is love at first sight, and people in whom it provokes a wild allergic reaction.
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The Telegraph
While Swinton and Elba make smooth work of the fairy-tale-toned dialogue, they simply lack the chemistry to make their tryst convince as romance.
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Total Film
An inventively fanciful and broadly enjoyable palate cleanser before Furiosa rides again.
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Three Thousand Years of Longing | Release Details
Three Thousand Years of Longing is coming to cinemas in Australia on 01 September 2022.