Dr Alithea Binnie (Tilda Swinton) is an academic – content with life and a creature of reason.
While in Istanbul attending a conference, she happens to encounter a Djinn (Idris Elba) who offers her three wishes in exchange for his freedom.
This presents two problems.
First, she doubts that he is real and second, because she is a scholar of story and mythology, she knows all the cautionary tales of wishes gone wrong.
The Djinn pleads his case by telling her fantastical stories of his past.
Eventually, she is beguiled and makes a wish that surprises them both.
Three Thousand Years of Longing is a 2022 fantasy film co-written and directed by George Miller.
An adaptation of the short story “The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye” by A. S. Byatt, the film stars Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton.
Three Thousand Years of Longing had its world premiere at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival on May 20, 2022, and is scheduled to be released in the United States on August 31, 2022, by United Artists Releasing.[4]
A scholar, content with life, encounters a Djinn who offers her three wishes in exchange for his freedom.
Their conversation, in a hotel room in Istanbul, leads to consequences neither would have expected.[5]
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DIRECTED BY: George Miller WRITTEN BY: George Miller and Augusta Gore BASED UPON: The short story “The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye” by A.S. Byatt CAST: Idris Elba, Tilda Swinton
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When Shadow Moon is released from prison, he meets the mysterious Mr. Wednesday and a storm begins to brew.
Little does Shadow know, this storm will change the course of his entire life.
Left adrift by the recent, tragic death of his wife, and suddenly hired as Mr. Wednesday’s bodyguard, Shadow finds himself in the center of a world that he struggles to understand.
It’s a world where magic is real, where the Old Gods fear both irrelevance and the growing power of the New Gods, like Technology and Media. Mr. Wednesday seeks to build a coalition of Old Gods to defend their existence in this new America, and reclaim some of the influence that they’ve lost.
As Shadow travels across the country with Mr. Wednesday, he struggles to accept this new reality, and his place in it.
Salim is a young Muslim man selling trinkets and souvenirs for his brother-in-law.
He sits all day long at a company called Panglobal, waiting to meet with Mr. Blanding who never shows.
He asks if he can make an appointment for tomorrow, and the assistant tells him he has to phone for appointments.
He walks out into the night rain and hails a cab, giving directions to his hotel.
The taxi driver speaks Arabic, and they discuss Oman, where Salim is from, chatting about the Lost City of Towers, which vanished thousands of years prior.
The taxi driver apologizes as he has been driving for 30 hours straight, and Salim tells him about how he just arrived in America a week ago and is selling worthless trinkets to people who won’t see him.
They get stuck in traffic and the taxi driver falls asleep.
Salim reaches over the seat and gently rests his hand on his shoulder to wake him.
The taxi driver awakens, and Salim catches a glimpse of fiery eyes in the rearview mirror.
Salim recognizes him as an ifrit, a person of the fire that his grandmother once told him about.
The Jinn tells him that he does not grant wishes and his life has been reduced to this terrible job as a taxi driver.
Salim reaches over to once again touch his shoulder in comfort.
I stayed up too late until I got too tired to finish my normal night routine, and I accidentally fell asleep on a living room couch.
So I never did get in bed, I still managed to save part of the end of two dreams, even though I had more.
Dream 1
The end of this dream took place during the evening or night at a slightly fictional version of the parking lot and field area between the D Junior High School and the KRH Elementary School.
I was there with some other adults, maybe some former classmates of mine and some other people, and some young adults and some kids.
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