Three Thousand Years of Longing

Three Thousand Years of Longing

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.

  • Released: 2022-08-24
  • Runtime: 108 minutes
  • Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
  • Stars: Tilda Swinton, Idris Elba, Kaan Guldur, Ece Yüksel, Zerrin Tekindor, Erdil Yaşaroğlu, 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, Tendai Dzwairo, Randolph Fields, Amelia Patomaki, Sarah Houbolt, Callum Moran, Shane Miller, David Paulsen, Tahlia Crinis, Melissa Jaffer, Feride Eralp, Georgiou Thomas, Arshia Dehghani, Talia Tulin Sert, Melissa Kahraman, Nathan Susskind, Ronny Mouawad, Michelotti Edoardo, Prakash Paul, Sabrina Elba, Olivia Porter, Burwaiss Ahmed, Quaden Bayles, Botan Ozer
  • Director: George Miller
 Comments
  • helenaforsyth - 29 May 2024
    Truly unpleasant film
    A film entirely centred on sexual coercion and control with only a tiny bit of reflection at the the end (which was meaningless). Felt more like it had been made in the 1970s rather than the 2020s!

    So many 'off' moments that made me squirm. Don't know how the A list cast got roped in but they should have used better judgement.

    So many red flags - child marriage (but husband who raped his wife every night described as 'kindly') overweight people used for humour (a woman falling on a flagstone floor will hurt herself not break the stone!), slavery in various forms (of women as 'concubines' which is viewed as benign (that may have been the view in the past but this is the 21st century!) Why would a 21st Century woman not question that world view now? One who plans to enslave her very own Djinn to be her perpetual lover - she only reflects on this unethical decision in the most fleeting way.

    All left me cold and a bit disgusted.
  • cinish - 23 February 2024
    Dystopian theme ride
    Imagination running wild. No holds barred.

    You think it, you write it, and you art and costume design it, and make it real in movie land. Probably one of the most striking VFX movies I have seen in a while.

    The magic of stories and story telling brought out superbly with lavish sets and costumes and sound design and visual extravagance.

    Djinn was amazing. Great performance from the actor.

    What I loved most was the abandon with which the script unfolds. You never know where you are going next. It is like an amusement park theme ride.

    I had watched it the day before and I have already forgotten most of it. But the movie had definitely left me with a smile on my face. Worth a watch for that if nothing else.
  • ZeddaZogenau - 17 November 2023
    Tales from 1001 Nights (Australian Style)
    Damn it! I wouldn't have thought Australian ACADEMY AWARD nominee George MILLER could do that after his Mad Max films. In an imaginative spectacle, he lets a lonely literary scholar (ACADEMY AWARD winner Tilda SWINTON) meet a djinn (GOLDEN GLOBE winner Idris ELBA), who beguiles her with his exciting stories from the Orient.

    George MILLER has created an absolutely unusual film that pays homage to the stories from 1001 Nights and at the same time can be interpreted as a clever commentary on narrative theory. Such daring deserves respect! It is certainly not possible to reach a mass audience under today's conditions. In the global box office (62,000 tickets sold in Germany), only around USD 17 million have been sold so far. A pity! We wish this wonderful film had a larger cinema audience! It's rare to see so much imagination and intelligence on the big screen anymore.

    By the way, the literary source comes from the British author Antonia S. BYATT and is a story called "The Djinn in the Nightingales Eye" (1994). BYATT became known in German-speaking countries in 1993 when her novel "Possession. A Romance" was lavishly praised by the German literary critic Pope Marcel REICH-RANICKI (1920-2013) on the legendary German television show DAS LITERARISCHE QUARTET.

    Great movie! Unusual and worth seeing!
  • theunrevealed - 13 December 2022
    The TRAILER IS A FRAUD!
    Never have I ever felt SO betrayed and cheated as with this movie's trailer and the actual movie.

    I paid 5 bucks on Amazon prime to rent this movie, which I never would have done, if the the official trailer actually represented the actual movie.

    The trailer promises flashy, high octane, crazy, unconventional anarchy.

    And in the movie you get NONE of that. It's a completely different TYPE of film, a completely different genre.

    What we get is a guy in a bathrobe telling a woman in a bathrobe very mildly interesting (short) stories from his life. I would even go as far as to say the stories were only mildly entertaining because I was expecting them to culminate in some kind of grand finale, moral of the story or something like that.

    But that just never happens. Instead the movie stays anticlimactic and just fizzles out.

    That said, the movie isn't super bad, it's just on the lower end of mediocre and for defrauding me for 5 bucks, I give it 2 stars less than it would have gotten otherwise.
  • missreneb - 26 November 2022
    Love, Magic, Beauty & Wisdom.
    In many films, I so long for imagination that transports you to out of the room and into the movie. It gives one lessons to reflect upon which is truly a gift. This movie did that for me and I loved it so much so I had to buy it after the rental.

    A perfect love story to us all.

    It is a perfect visual delight. It is perfect for the human soul, sorely needed in today's world. Perfect in every way that a work of art can be admired.

    I am grateful to everyone involved in the creation of the story and movie making. Brilliant stuff. To critique such a masterful work is beyond my capability of words but I tried.

    I feel guilty of the purchase price of such a gem. It is worth so much more.

    I highly recommend the view!
  • Anti_Ps - 18 November 2022
    Free the Djinn
    Selfish loves dominate this feature, not one is a true love story: it's all desires, lust, power in vain. Not one featured either care or sacrifice for the other, except from the Djinn.

    Obviously, he can't escape his predicament, so what happens to him lies solely with others whether they treat him with respect or as a slave beholden to fulfil every wish, disregarding his own desires and needs.

    She could just move to where he thrives and not dies instead of bunkering in her own pettiful world.

    Writers, readers, they have the luxury of performing their job all around the globe.

    But she didn't wished for her to be completely in love, just someone else with her.

    Taken, not given. Mais non l'amour...

    I found it a rather depressing story, one that even allows love under will to be wished for. Not even Aladdin (1992), was so unloving.