Tre tusen år av längtan

Den stora spänningen ligger i om kloka och pålästa Alithea, hon som tror på logik och vetenskap, ska få ihop det med sin mystiske gäst, som kanske inte ens är verklig.

...in its loopy, beguiling, occasionally befuddling way, Three Thousand Years of Longing feels like it’s trying—and sometimes failing—to sum something up about Miller’s own history of loving strange movie magic.

...a glossy cinematic knickknack steeped in the heady unreality of a fable, or a dream.

It’s a film that wears its heart on its sleeve; a love letter to storytelling, itself based on a short story by the Booker Prize-winning novelist A.S. Byatt.

...is guileless, open-hearted, like an antiquarian bookseller’s dream of The Thief of Baghdad. It’s so defiantly out of step with fashion that there’s finally something faintly glorious about it.