George Miller Has Earned the Right To Make Something as Gushy and Strange as Three Thousand Years of Longing

Lavish and strange as the Cannes Film Festival can be, it’s fitting that filmmaker George Miller—as lavish and strange as mainstream filmmakers get—should debut his latest inventive, erratic work here. His last trip to the Croisette was of a rare order: the marvelous Mad Max: Fury Road debuted here and became an instant classic. Now Miller has returned to the festival with a project of a very different sort, as we should expect from the man who made both The Road Warrior and Happy Feet. His new film, Three Thousand Years of Longing blends the storybook tones and hues of… Read Full Article