George Miller’s belated followup to 2015’s Mad Max: Fury Road is a consciously unfashionable fantasy about a wary academic and a chatty genie that may leave you wishing for moreGrant the Mad Max fans a magic wish and they’d conjure up a new film from George Miller, right here and right now, not a moment to lose.
It’s probably what they’ve been wanting since Fury Road trundled off into the desert back in 2015.
Now their prayers have been answered, God help them, as Miller arrived at the Cannes film festival to uncork a picture he describes as “the anti-Mad Max”: a loquacious Arabian Nights-style fantasy about the relationship between an ancient genie and a London academic.
These people really should have read the small print.
Every magic wish comes with a consequence, a cost.Adapted from a 1994 As Byatt novella, Three Thousand Years of Longing
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