Three Thousand Years of Longing
2022 film by George Miller / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Three Thousand Years of Longing is a 2022 fantasy romantic drama film directed and produced by George Miller. Written by Miller and Augusta Gore, it is based on the 1994 short story "The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye" by A. S. Byatt and follows a djinn (Idris Elba) who is unleashed from a bottle by a professor (Tilda Swinton) and tells her stories from his thousands of years of existence. The film is dedicated to Miller's mother Angela, as well as Rena Mitchell, relative of producer Doug Mitchell.
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Directed by | George Miller |
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Based on | "The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye" by A. S. Byatt |
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Cinematography | John Seale |
Edited by | Margaret Sixel |
Music by | Tom Holkenborg[2] |
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Running time | 108 minutes[3] |
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Language | English |
Budget | $60 million[4][5] |
Box office | $20.3 million[6] |
The film premiered out of competition at the 75th Cannes Film Festival on May 20, 2022, where it received a six-minute standing ovation. It was released theatrically in the United States on August 26, 2022, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (via United Artists Releasing), and in Australia on September 1, 2022, by Roadshow Entertainment. It received generally positive reviews from critics, who praised its visuals and performances, but was a box-office bomb, grossing $20.3 million against a budget of $60 million.