Three Thousand Years of Longing
I really wasn’t expecting to like this at all — the only reason I went to see it was I had ten hours to kill before a flight and I wanted a comfortable air-conditioned place to take a nap in. But this movie kept my eyes open. (MGM should feel free to use that quote for the Blu-Ray cover.)
It’s nice to see a director with proven commercial instincts make something with such brazen disregard for what mainstream audiences think is cool or good. 410
All artists have a part of themselves that is constantly asking, “Will people laugh at me for this? Am I going to embarrass myself?” <PERSON> seems to have fully deactivated that area of his brain while making this film. Given how badly it flopped, he’ll probably never get to do that again. I respect him for using all his studio freedom chits on a movie where <PERSON> has sex with a twenty foot tall djinn. 698