Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022)

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   Siskoid

   Though it seems the studio didn't know how to market it, so just... didn't, George Miller's Three Thousand Years of Longing is a gorgeous film about loneliness and the role stories play in filling that void. Not coincidentally, I think, it's a COVID movie, with small cast clusters, actually masked extras, and a theme that's relevant to the pandemic era. It's the story of a woman (Tilda Swinton) who finds a genie in a bottle (Idris Elba), but wait, she's a narratologist and quite the expert in tales about wishes, so it's not going to be as easy as all that. Since it's all about stories, the Djinn's own are lushly told, real feasts for the eyes and ears, and there's enough ambiguity that you can believe he's real or not. Would you rather have Miller's wonderful connections between the tales and Swinton's life be indications that she's making them up, or the reverse, that fate is creating those correspondences? Where does reality leave off and imagination come in? I can't say the film creates the heartbreak it seems to aim at - it's too intellectual for that - but as a modern fairy tale, inventive and perspicacious, it works quite well. 1 year 8 months ago
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   Ratsy

   I loved this movie. It was beautifully made. And the acting was great. music was gorgeous. costumes were fantastic. 1 year 5 months ago
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   greenhorg

   A visually opulent adult fantasy most similar to Gilliam's Baron Munchausen (1988) and Tarsem's The Fall (2006), although the cheap CGI makes it aesthetically inferior to both. Further it is not as creative as 'Baron' or as emotionally engaging as 'Fall' and doesn't exceed either in any unique way. The story and the stories within the story are interesting enough, but the romance in the final quarter falls particularly flat.
   
   In fairness 'Baron' and 'Fall' are both very good movies, and so this is injured more by the similarity; it is not bad, just a little bit above average. 1 year 2 months ago

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