Unexpectedly released from several millennia’s worth of entrapment in a series of small and very well-traveled bottles, a nameless djinn (Idris Elba) flashes uncanny superpowers (including briefly resurrecting Albert Einstein from the dead) yet finds himself stymied by his new client’s lack of desire. It’s impossible not to think of this quote while watching the Australian director’s new fantasy opus Three Thousand Years of Longing, a film that could be described as the character study of a trickster with nothing up his sleeve. I think I can be around a thousand years and never understand the process.” “In mythology, the trickster leads you into the forest,” he said.
In a 1996 interview with the Los Angeles Times, George Miller waxed philosophical about his approach to cinematic storytelling.
