Top billed cast

1. 

   Tilda Swinton

   Alithea

2. 

   Idris Elba

   The Djinn

3. 

   Erdil Yaşaroğlu

   Professor Günhan

4. 

   Sabrina Elba

   British Council Lady / The Watcher

5. 

   Sarah Houbolt

   Airport Djinn

6. 

   Seyithan Özdemir

   Pale Djinn

7. 

   Aamito Lagum

   The Queen of Sheba

8. 

   Nicolas Mouawad

   King Solomon

9. 

   Ece Yüksel

   Gulten

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on 2022-09-03

"Alithea" (Tilda Swinton) is a solitary scholar who travels to Istanbul to address a conference on the relative merits of myth v science. At the seminar, she starts to hallucinate and the seed is sown that perhaps the mystical is not so far-fetched as we might think! A visit to the Grand Bazaar sees her acquire a small blue bottle that, when attacked rather unceremoniously with an electric toothbrush, spills it's contents into her hotel room. A giant, hairy-legged Djinn (Idris Elba). In keeping with tradition, he offers her three wishes - but she is sceptical. Easy come, easy goes thinks she -...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$60,000,000.00

Revenue
$20,300,000.00

Keywords

• mythology
• longing
• djinn
• desire
• storytelling
• wish fulfillment
• genie
• public speaking
• istanbul, turkey
• scholar
• lonely woman
• complex
• wishes
• doctorate
• whimsical