![]() ![]() Tilda Swinton plays Alithea, a northern academic, who specialises in the connections between stories ancient and modern. ![]() Miller optioned AS Byatt’s 1994 book of fairytales, The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye several years ago and has extracted its key characters for his script with Augusta Gore. Lavish costumes, fabulous sets and extraordinarily effective CGI evoke the mythical world of djinns and sultans, desperate concubines and scheming despots. But it’s also a high-end fantasy movie drawing on the antique Persian folk tales known as One Thousand and One Nights. It's a talk-fest about love and desire that takes place between two people in a hotel room (don’t worry, it’s not a reprise of Good Luck to You, Leo Grande with its preachy claustrophobia). It wasn’t Miller’s most critically acclaimed film, too adult and talky for the fantasy fans, too fantastical for audiences expecting the social satire of John Updike’s original novel.Ī similar reaction may well happen to Three Thousand Years of Longing the movie struggles to know quite who its audience is and how to please them. Along the way, he cast three beautiful actresses as sorcerers competing for the devil’s attention in The Witches of Eastwick. The Australian director, now in his 70s, has given us not only action heroes in post-apocalyptic landscapes but also a sagacious pig in Babe and dancing penguins in Happy Feet. ![]()
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