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'Three Thousand Years of Longing' movie review: Djinn and bear it!
Updated On: 26 August, 2022 06:25 PM IST | Mumbai | Johnson Thomas
It’s Three Thousand Years of Longing and the near two hour runtime makes it a quick enough, half-way satisfying experience
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Film: Three Thousand Years of Longing
Cast: Tilda Swinton, Idris Elba, Pia Thunderbolt, Aamito Lagum, Burcu Gölgedar
Director: George Miller
Rating: * * ½
Runtime: 108 mins
This film, scripted by George Miller and Augusta Gore (his daughter), based on a short story “The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye” by A.S. Byatt, postulates about a lonely scholar on a trip to Istanbul, discovering a Djinn who offers her three wishes in exchange for his freedom. Miller`s first film since “Fury Road” (2015), this one is way too different from that or his other Oscar-nominated feature “Lorenzo’s Oil.”
The narrative is more narrated rather than visualised here. What we see though is pretty much colourful and magnificent. There are far too many stories being told, the plotting meanders and is verbose and delivered with facile character development. So, as an audience you tend to feel rather uninvolved despite the visual magnificence.
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