Gaslight Twin Cinema
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Dr. Alithea Binnie (Tilda Swinton) is an academic – content with life and a crea.
The director’s films, from Mad Max: Fury Road to Three Thousand Years of Longing to even Babe: Pig in the City and Happy Feet, all ask the same question and dare the audience to dream up a better answer.
Dr. Alithea Binnie (Tilda Swinton) is an academic content with life and a creature of reason. While in Istanbul attending a conference, she happens to encounter a Djinn (Idris Elba) who offers her three wishes in exchange for his freedom. This presents two problems. First, she doubts that he is real and second, because she is a scholar of story and mythology, she knows all the cautionary tales of wishes gone wrong. The Djinn pleads his case by telling her fantastical stories of his past. Eventually she is beguiled and makes a wish that surprises them both.