While Three Thousand Years of Longing never reaches that film’s mastery or poignancy, the expansive, bold paint-strokes of Miller’s passionate world-creation is still singular to behold.

Visually rich and thematically dense, Three Thousand Years of Longing muses on romance and possession, as well as the slow death of mythology and folklore at the hands of science and capitalism.

A feast for the head and the heart and the eyes.

Three Thousand Years of Longing is a film that says: go ahead and wish for whatever you want.