Cannes 2022: Three Thousand Years of Longing review - George Miller's first feature since Mad Max: Fury Road is enchanting

Tilda Swinton as Alithea Binnie and Idris Elba as The Djinn in director George Miller's Three Thousand Years of Longing."There is no story about wishing that is not a cautionary tale," remarks Tilda Swinton's lonely academic in George Miller's beguiling fable, Three Thousand Years of Longing.

Swinton, looking as bookish as she can in glasses and a dog-tooth-check jacket, plays Alithea Binnie, a narratologist who arrives in Istanbul to give a lecture. There, in a store, she buys a blue-and-white vase, and back in her hotel bathroom starts cleaning it with her toothbrush.Out pops a giant djinn , who promises to give her three wishes, whatever her heart desires. At first, she closes her eyes, hoping it's a trick of her mind, but she soon realises this sprite is here to stay.

Instead, she hears the Djinn's story — how he was imprisoned by a magician and left to rot inside his tiny jail. "Can you imagine the loneliness?" he asks, perhaps words that cut Alithea open. She has no children, no parents, no siblings — just her work to keep her company.

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