Three Thousand Years of Longing

(2022)

★ 6.7 IMDb · 1,729 votes

Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Romance

Year: 2022

Runtime: 108 min

Country: Australia, China, United Kingdom

Director: Джордж Миллер

Cast: Тильда Суинтон, Идрис Эльба, Erdil Yaşaroğlu, Sabrina Elba, Sarah Houbolt

Plot

A solitary scholar discovers an ancient bottle while on a trip to Istanbul and unleashes a djinn who offers her three wishes. Filled with reluctance, she is unable to come up with one, so the djinn tries to inspire her with his stories.

Dr Alithea Binnie (Tilda Swinton) is an academic - content with life and a creature of reason. While in Istanbul attending a conference, she happens to encounter a Djinn (Idris Elba) who offers her three wishes in exchange for his freedom. This presents two problems. First, she doubts that he is real and second, because she is 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 is beguiled and makes a wish that surprises them both.