![]() How does the man known for presenting one of the most iconic, violent wastelands in cinema also turn around and make Happy Feet, or Babe: Pig in the City? Since 1979, the idiosyncratic, soft-spoken director has surfaced roughly a dozen times, in each case to present a uniquely polarizing work. ![]() You could watch all of his movies in a weekend and find gonzo comedy, seminal action cinema, brutally intimate drama, and landmark children’s movies. The breadth of George Miller’s filmography is staggering and slim at the same time. Much like Alithea’s story, the career of the director telling that story is difficult to believe, and seemingly unreal. So to better present it to an audience inoculated against wonder, she decides to tell it as a fairy tale: one of the oldest kinds of stories, where the veracity of an account has little bearing on whether it’s true. Alithea Binnie (Tilda Swinton), the film’s protagonist, warns viewers that the story she’s about to tell beggars belief - and yet it nonetheless happened to her. ![]() George Miller’s lavish fantasy movie Three Thousand Years of Longing begins with a warning.
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