![]() ![]() Back in her hotel room, she tries to scrub off an ornamental bottle she picked up at an antique shop. We are to ask, later, whether it was a hallucination or something ancient and real calling to her. The movie will be about emotion, but also about storytelling and stories.ĭuring a lecture Alithea faints after a hallucination. “She wrote Death on the Nile here,” Alithea is told. Arriving in a storybook-bright Istanbul for a conference, she’s put up in the Agatha Christie room of the Pera Palace Hotel. Introducing herself in voiceover as a “narratologist,” that is, a studier of stories, she cherishes her solitary self-sufficiency. In the case of Alithea, the academic played with traits both prim and feisty by Tilda Swinton, the longing is one she denies. ![]() And very much about the emotion tagged in the title. “Three Thousand Years of Longing,” the new film directed by the protean “Mad Max: Fury Road” creator George Miller, is very much a battleground. Love, hate, action, violence, death, in one word, emotions.” In a much-bruited scene in Jean-Luc Godard’s 1966 film “ Pierrot le Fou,” the sui generis American filmmaker Sam Fuller turns up at a party and is asked by Jean-Paul Belmondo to define cinema. ![]()
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