Trois mille ans à t'attendre

...a glossy cinematic knickknack steeped in the heady unreality of a fable, or a dream.

...is guileless, open-hearted, like an antiquarian bookseller’s dream of The Thief of Baghdad. It’s so defiantly out of step with fashion that there’s finally something faintly glorious about it.

In many ways Three Thousand Years... is everything Fury Road isn’t. Namely: incessantly talky and almost completely devoid of action.

George Miller’s film is a passionate exploration of how image-making is inextricable from storytelling.

Den stora spänningen ligger i om kloka och pålästa Alithea, hon som tror på logik och vetenskap, ska få ihop det med sin mystiske gäst, som kanske inte ens är verklig.