Australian filmmaker George Miller's exploration of storytelling tops the DVD releases for the week of Nov. 15.
"Three Thousand Years of Longing": Tilda Swinton stars as a narratologist who encounters a djinn, played by Idris Elba, who grants her three wishes and recounts his experiences in this cerebral detour from the director of "Mad Max: Fury Road."
"While Miller asks the audience to level up to their existential exploration, in posing questions about the purpose of storytelling, and perhaps, about the lack of magic in our technological, science-driven world, the film doesn’t offer up any concrete answers, leaving us adrift in a sea of provocative queries," writes Tribune News Service critic Katie Walsh in her review. "For a film about narrative, it meanders, losing focus."
