‘Eccentric fantasy’: Mad Max director George Miller takes bizarre turn with new movie

The film stars Tilda Swinton as a solitary scholar and Idris Elba as the genie she finds in a bottle in the markets of Istanbul.  Photo: Roadshow Films

Movie trailers these days tend to give away the entire storyline in two and a half minutes. 

But the same can’t be said for the Three Thousand Years of Longing trailer, the utterly fascinating new film by Australian filmmaker George Miller.