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
  • collectorofsorts - 11 January 2023
    Boring and unbelievable slow paced!
    I love Genie/Jinn movies. But this one was horrible! It was like watching paint dry.

    To begin with, it took me three sittings to get through it. The story wasn't there for a feature length movie. This would have probably made a good hour long 'made for TV' type of show. But there just wasn't enough material there for a movie.

    There was some redeeming stuff in there. I liked the interaction between the lady and the genie, at least somewhat. And I liked the couple interactions they showed towards the end with the visits. But it was just too little and too late.

    Sometimes you have to wonder how some movies get produced. And this is one of those movies you wonder that about.
  • PyroSikTh - 9 December 2022
    A Movie About Stories, Without Enough Good Ones to Tell
    Three Thousand Years of Longing managed to enthral me for much of its runtime. I could've happily strapped in for another couple of hours of Alithea and the Djinn sat in that hotel room telling each other stories. It's a movie about stories, and the stories within are so well-crafted that they draw you in. You want to know more, you want to sit in them for longer, you want more of them. The movie does a fantastic job of making you feel the impact stories can have. But once the stories are told the movie falls apart. It can't keep up with itself, it runs out of ideas, it brute forces its way to a conclusion with no consideration for its own internal logic, it rushes from plot point to plot point in order to reach the credits sooner. It almost feels like a large portion of the film's final act was left on the cutting room floor. I give Three Thousand Years of Longing a 7/10, with high praise for the meat of it, but is ultimately let down by an unsatisfying and lazy conclusion.