CANNES, France, May 21 ― Tilda Swinton said Saturday that the world needs stories more than ever as her fantastical new fable Three Thousand Years of Longing, from Mad Max...
CANNES, France, May 21 ― Tilda Swinton said Saturday that the world needs stories more than ever as her fantastical new fableSwinton plays an academic who releases a djinn from a bottle she finds in an Istanbul market, who offers her three wishes.
The djinn tells her how he found himself trapped ― throwing the audience back through a series of fabulous folktales reminiscent of TSpeaking at Cannes, Swinton said it was fitting for a film “about having a variety of angles”. “The thing that’s dangerous about stories is when you only have one story,” she told a press conference.
“It’s so clear now, particularly in the last few months that... when people only hear one story, things go down the tubes fast,” she said, in an apparent reference to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.On a lighter note, the film team faced the inevitable question of what three wishes they would make if they had the chance.“My second wish is that the audience takes from this film that we learn from stories and that this is quite an unconventional telling of a story.
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