Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022)
Directed by George Miller · Cinematography by John Seale
R108 min73 frames
DramaFantasyRomance
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What is Three Thousand Years of Longing about?
A solitary scholar discovers an ancient bottle while on a trip to Istanbul and unleashes a djinn who offers her three wishes. Filled with reluctance, she is unable to come up with one, so the djinn tries to inspire her with his stories.
Three Thousand Years of Longing is a 2022 romantic fantasy 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 who is unleashed from a bottle by a professor and tells her stories from his thousands of years of existence. The film stars Idris Elba, Aska Karem, Matteo Bocelli, Aamito Lagum, Sarah Houbolt, Lachy Hulme, and Tilda Swinton. The film is dedicated to Miller's mother Angela, as well as Rena Mitchell, relative of producer Doug Mitchell.
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Who stars in Three Thousand Years of Longing?
Tilda Swintonas Alithea
Idris Elbaas The Djinn
Erdil Yaşaroğluas Professor Günhan
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What does the cinematography of Three Thousand Years of Longing look like?
Across 73 sampled frames, Three Thousand Years of Longing builds its coverage from medium shots (42% of the sample), with wide compositions (30%) carrying much of the rest. Cinematographer John Seale keeps 51% of it in soft, low-key light. 45% of the frames play at night or in the failing light of dusk. Anamorphic glass shapes the frame. Focus stays shallow in 68% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings.
What is the color palette of Three Thousand Years of Longing?
The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022) are #32312e, #100f0f, #261712, #47352b, #d2d1ce, #d1c7b0 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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