Critic
Hollywood’s Mad Genius Mixes an Almost-Perfect Potion in New Film
George Miller’s latest movie, Three Thousand Years of Longing, stars Idris Elba as a Djinn and Tilda Swinton as an uptight academic.
Source: MGM
The easy formulas of most blockbusters have never appealed to the Australian director George Miller. His films can be deceptively simple yet are frequently bizarre; often nightmarish, they can turn surprisingly sentimental.
One constant, however, is that they overflow with a creative energy that’s rare when box offices are awash in superhero chum. Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road turned a two-hour chase through a dystopian desert into a car-fueled symphony, transforming a dormant franchise into an Oscar-winning $375 million global smash.