Review of Three Thousand Years of Longing

I saw this on Cinema day for $3. I couldn't wait to run out of the theatre. It felt like 3000 minutes, although it was not. Huge production, fragmented story lines crisscrossing each other like random fireflies. Not one feeling of suspense, anticipation, terror or involvement. It's as if the film is taking place very far away and you are looking at it on a tv screen. In theatre, Brecht's v-effect, of stopping the action and commenting on it can work, but not in a film. Th continuity of the story is constantly interrupted and drags the story into a tarpit. Random mislaid titles do nothing to help the flow. All adding up to almost nothing. Not a movie experience, more like a contemplation of philosophical ideas, but really dreadful. Save yourself. Spare yourself.