Film about a genie starring Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton is partly true, says director at Cannes - The Guardian

George Miller reveals the inside story of his big-screen premiere, Three Thousand Years of Longing, based on an AS Byatt story

A lonely, real-life experience in an Istanbul hotel room an imagined moment of escapist magic inspired the British author AS Byatt to write a romantic fantasy about a genie in a bottle, George Miller… [+3928 chars]

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