Three Thousand Years of Longing
2022, fantasy
108 minutes
A solitary scholar discovers an ancient bottle while on a trip to Istanbul and unleashes a djinn who offers her three wishes. Filled with reluctance, she is unable to come up with one, so the djinn tries to inspire her with his stories.
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8.5
2022-12-05
It is full of beautiful colors, great imagination, gorgeous costumes, and eye-opening visuals. It is a marvelously ambitious fantasy-fairy tale film that gets so close to being a true all-timer. Read more
8.0
2022-08-30
An unhurried pondering through the wit and wonder of thousands of years of human history, told through the romantic remembrances of a long-trapped Djinn. Read more
7.0
2022-08-30
Despite all the sheer spectacle, the movie’s strength lies in the charisma of the two leads who manage to ground even the most outlandish flight of fancy. The film actually works best as a two-hander and the simplest interactions between them in that hotel room generate the most emotional power. Read more
7.0
2022-08-26
It’s not a masterpiece and it falls into some old-school storytelling traps, but Three Thousand Years of Longing offers much originality and two undeniable performances. Read more
6.0
2022-09-07
There’s nothing particularly wrong with this movie. And it had some moments of brilliance in the vignettes it painted of the Djinn’s past adventures. But overall, for me, I found the whole was less than the sum of its parts. Read more
6.0
2022-08-23
The visuals are absorbing, the notes on all-consuming love are moving, and the music by Tom Holkenborg is grand, but this finale precipitately and utterly derails what could have been a harmonious fantasy by injecting a feeble dose of modern people’s incompatible longings. Read more
4.0
2022-09-29
With a tone that teeters between delicate and affected, this fantasy drama has no claws to be of more than passing interest. Basically, it fails to achieve what it tries to claim: the power of a deeply engaging narrative. Read more
3.0
2022-09-02
Equally as backwards as the film's visual aesthetic are its regressive attitudes towards women and the Eastern world. Read more
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