Three Thousand Years of Longing

Showtimes: Wednesday 28th September at 2:30pm and 7pm, Saturday 1st October at 2:30pm and 7pm

Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba star in this fantasy romantic drama directed by George Miller, and adaptation of the short story “The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye” by A. S. Byatt.

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.

Runtime: 1 hour 48 minutes

Rating: R

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