George Miller Tells an Epic, Fantasy Love Story in ‘Three Thousand Years of Longing’ Trailer
variety.comWilson Chapman editorSeven years after the critically acclaimed “Mad Max: Fury Road,” George Miller is back in the director’s chair for the epic romance film “Three Thousand Years of Longing.”Based on the 1994 short story “The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye” by English writer A.
S. Byatt, “Three Thousand Years of Longing” stars Tilda Swinton as Alithea, a brilliant scholar who encounters a Djinn (Idris Elba) imprisoned in an urn.
Over the course of a long conversation in a hotel room in Istanbul, the Djinn strikes a deal with Alithea to grant her three wishes if she helps him gain his freedom.
Alithea’s wishes results in the two hopping decades through time, all the while developing unexpected feelings for each other. “Three Thousand Years of Longing” will make its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival on Friday.
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