MOVIE · 2022

Three Thousand Years of Longing

DramaFantasyRomance108 min

On a trip to Istanbul, Dr. Alithea Binnie uncorks an ancient bottle and releases a djinn who offers her three wishes in exchange for his freedom. Tilda Swinton is Alithea, a solitary scholar of stories and mythology whose rational mind makes her suspicious of both the djinn and the bargain. Idris Elba’s Djinn responds by recounting episodes from his thousands of years of longing, trying to persuade her to choose. Directed by George Miller, the film keeps returning to the space between skepticism and seduction as Alithea weighs the promise of a wish against everything she knows about the stories people tell about them.