While giving a talk about the continuing purpose of myth in our modern, science-based world, she is spooked by a djinn in the audience and faints. Upon arrival, she starts to encounter mysterious, magical figures, what she calls djinn (another word for “genie,” referring to the Muslim belief in invisible spirits that inhabit the world and take the form of humans or animals). The outer layer is told by Alithea ( Tilda Swinton), a narratologist who has made her way to Turkey for a conference. It is a nested Matryoshka doll of stories. Byatt, adapted by Miller and Augusta Gore, “Three Thousand Years of Longing” is a philosophically ambitious project, a cerebral exploration of the function of storytelling in human existence and the meaning of desire. ![]() Australian filmmaker George Miller’s latest cinematic exploration of humanity is a far cry from the dusty, diesel-fueled “Mad Max” franchise for which he is known, and it proves a moment of respite between 2015’s “Mad Max: Fury Road” and the currently filming prequel to that film, “Furiosa.”īased on the short story “The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye” by A.S.
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