The big-budget fantasy appears to be his dream project, but be careful what you wish for.
“This wishing is a hazardous business,” says Alithea Binnie to the genie who has just materialized before her eyes in a posh Istanbul hotel room. Alithea, a British literary scholar specializing in narratology and the history of folk and fairy tales, may think she knows from wishing, but the genie has a much harder-won understanding of the power and danger inherent in daring to ask for your heart’s desire.
For all those years, Djinn’s only wish has been for some mortal to find him and make three wishes of their own, thereby freeing him from eons of confinement. The movie’s action, such as it is, consists of him telling his life story Scheherazade-style, in nested narratives that leap among centuries and geographical settings.
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