Three Thousand Years of Longing

Three Thousand Years of Longing

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, United Artists Releasing

Release date

August 26, 2022

Idris Elba ("The Djinn") discusses Three Thousand Years of Longing

My first impression was that it was a wonderful, fantastical story.

Tilda has been like an incredible partner, just an incredibly fantastic actor, a complete, majestic figure. 

Tilda and I were keen to make sure that the language, just the story, really affects the audience in a way that the audience would go...I wonder what I would have done. 

Tilda Swinton ("Alithea") discusses Three Thousand Years of Longing

Idris and I met once at a party which is a very rare sentence for me to say. I don't go to many parties, but I met him at a party. We exchanged that sort of very banal statement Oh, it would be lovely to work together. 

I am a huge admirer of George's cinema. He in so many ways makes a cinema that I respond to like a child. 

The shape, of the film, the sort of trajectory arrows journey of the film is to a certain extent about evolution about human evolution, Social evolution, I would say, and in particular in relation to the circumstances, of women's life.

The film is about desire.  What are your 3 wishes? What do you desire?

So when she meets the Djinn, the Djinn says, "What are your desires?" 

She says."I don't have any", and she's really proud of that.

She thinks that's a great position to not have any desires

I think her evolution in the course of the film is that she reiterates that, and she evolves.

Three Thousand Years of Longing

Directed by

George Miller

Screenplay by

George Miller and Augusta Gore

Based on

"The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye" by A. S. Byatt

Produced by

George Miller and Doug Mitchell

Starring

Idris Elba as the Djinn

Tilda Swinton as Alithea Binnie

Alyla Browne as young Alithea Binnie

Aamito Lagum as Queen of Sheba

Burcu Gölgedar as Zefir

Matteo Bocelli as Prince Mustafa

Kaan Guldur as Murad IV

Jack Braddy as Ibrahim

Hugo Vella as young Ibrahim

Pia Thunderbolt as Ezgi

Anna Adams as Sugar Lump

David Collins as Jocular Storyteller

Angie Tricker as Narratologist

Anthony Moisset as Hotel Porter

Cinematography

John Seale

Edited by

Margaret Sixel

Music by

Tom Holkenborg

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