While attending a conference in Istanbul, Dr. Alithea Binnie happens to encounter a djinn who offers her three wishes in exchange for his freedom. This presents two problems: first, she doubts that he’s real, and second, because she’s 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’s beguiled and makes a wish that surprises them both.

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‘Three Thousand Years of Longing’ Review: Left Wanting. Longing, despair, joy, disappointment — it's all here.

…Costume designer Kym Barrett, known for her collaborations with other maximalist directors like Baz Luhrman and the Wachowskis, joins Miller for the first time to create a vibrant and memorable array of looks from across four time periods.

As you might imagine, Three Thousand Years of Longing is a dense and deliberate visual smorgasbord. The camera dances between storybook tableaus and tantalizing close-ups, floating about spaces with the ease of its viewpoint character. Where a flying, free-roaming camera often betrays the falseness of a digital space or characters, its use here never shatters the heightened reality of the film….There’s so much going on in Three Thousand Years of Longing that it commits what is, to me, a very rare sin in modern Hollywood — it ends too quickly.

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Three Thousand Years of Longing’s Matteo Bocelli on Making His Acting Debut and Collaborating With Junkie XL

Here’s a fun thing you might not know about legendary director George Miller — before he started making his wild, wild films, he was an emergency room doctor, and to this day, many people still call him Dr. Miller on set. This is according to Three Thousand Years of Longing actor Matteo Bocelli: “Everyone has huge respect for Dr. Miller,” Bocelli says. “Everyone knows his story.”

In Miller’s newest film, Bocelli plays Prince Mustafa, an heir to the Ottoman Empire whose story is one of several told by a Djinn (Idris Elba) to a narratologist (Tilda Swinton) who happened to acquire the bottle imprisoning him.

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‘Three Thousand Years of Longing’: Still dreaming of Genie

…Through his spellbinding stories, in Longing the Djinn transports Alithea and audiences back in time, for example to the fabled affair between the Queen of Sheba (drop dead gorgeous Aamita Lagum) and King Solomon (Nicolas Mouawad), which took place during the Biblical epoch (and we know how steamy that Old Testament could get!). We witness harems and other vignettes from the ancient world, as revealed in this R-rated romp by the Aladdin-like Djinn. Shot by Oscar- and BAFTA-wining director of photography John Seale (the Miller-directed Mad Max: Fury Road, The English Patient, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone), Longing is an optically opulent epic, full of artsy slow fades to black. Kym Barrett’s costumes and Lisa Thompson’s sets enhance the eye candy of this sumptuous cinematic treat…

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‘Three Thousand Years of Longing’ Review: Tilda Swinton & Idris Elba Make For a Surprisingly Great On-Screen Couple

This film is absolutely gorgeous to look at. The scale in which these stories are shown makes me want an epic period piece from George Miller sometime in the future. We see these beautiful kingdoms and palaces filled with people in just amazing costumes and make up. Every aspect of this production comes together excellently to deliver such a sweeping, emotional and bittersweet story. The design for the Elba’s Djinn is such a fun and elegant look, the costuming for Queen Sheeba and her empire are immaculate, and the look of all the mythical creatures are scary and layered with their own personal stories. And that’s just the look of the costuming and make up, what about the visual effects?

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"Miller spins a timeless tale that feels like it has been passed down across generations, but certainly doesn’t fit with today’s thirst for blockbuster cinematic universe content. But for those who are thirsty for a good story told well by a filmmaker showing his impeccable range, you won’t need three wishes."
Punch Drunk Critics
Punch Drunk CriticsTravis Hopson
...But this is Miller’s show, a 108-minute combination of flex and sizzle reel. The sheer mastery of craft on display is frankly breathtaking – the ingenuity of the compositions, the inventiveness of the transitions, the deft and textured use of sound all combine to form that rarest of beasts, big canvas filmmaking with genuine personality. The costume and production design are ornate and delightful, but the picture never feels out of Miller’s control; even in its most supple sequences, he fills the frame with tiny, clever throwaway props, beats, and gags....
Crooked Marquee
Crooked MarqueeJason Bailey
...it’s audacious, funny and consistently inventive with a lot of charm.
The Sydney Morning Herald
The Sydney Morning HeraldSandra Hall
"Even the elaborate tableaux of Cecil B. DeMille aren’t sufficient preparation for the production design and CGI-driven phantasmagoria of this tale, which features, among other things, a kind of self-playing lyre, the better to augment the song of Solomon that seduces Sheba."
Roger Ebert
Roger EbertGlenn Kenny
"The film flourishes in its colorful costumes and grandiose set design. Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton are typically terrific in the film. The rest of the cast also impressively delivers alongside them. Each supporting character has their own strange quirk in their performance. From a technical standpoint, the most impressive feature is the edit, which seamlessly transitions from one insane moment to the next."
Hammer to Nail
Hammer to NailJack Schenker

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