Film Review – Three Thousand Years of Longing

George Miller is an accomplished director with a strange filmography. He doesn’t work very often, taking time to craft his endeavors, and he always tries to generate something special when he finally gets around to making a movie. His last release, 2015’s “Mad Max: Fury Road,” was one of the most electrified offerings in his career. He went deep to create an often astonishing vision of environmental doom and dystopian war, triumphantly reviving the franchise that helped to introduce his creative interests to audiences. After dealing with the epic scale of “Fury Road,” Miller tries to make something slightly more intimate with “Three Thousand Years of Longing,” which examines the waves of myth and storytelling while striving to generate a powerful romance along the way. Miller provides arresting visuals and attention to editorial detail, but he can’t shake the coldness of the material (co-written by Miller and Augusta Gore), which doesn’t reach the level of profundity the production is aiming to achieve. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com