George Miller unleashes a wild, horny fairy tale in first Three Thousand Years Of Longing trailer

Now we’ve got a full version of the trailer and it is, indeed, looking a lot more energetic than its initial “two people have a long conversation about desire” logline might have led you to believe—not least of which because one of the people in question is a djinn, played by a size-shifting, elf-eared Idris Elba.

The other, meanwhile, is Alithea (Tilda Swinton), a woman of very few stated desires, but who does know that “There’s no story about wishing that is not a cautionary tale.” Hence, presumably, why Elba’s djinn regales her of stories of his past exploits, which appear to be a very lurid mixture of violent, whimsical, and deeply horny. (There’s also still that horrible spider thing that gloops out of an egg sac or something in one of the flashbacks; welcome to our Nightmare Library, horrible spider thing!)

The one caveat about the trailer is that it’s a little hard to determine which music and editing choices were set by Miller and his team, and which were inserted by the marketing folks to give a little bit more of that “This is from the Fury Road guy!” feel; at the very least, the use of color and light feels very much in the director’s wheelhouse. We’ll presumably have a better sense of the film itself later today, after it makes its full premiere at Cannes, and the reviews from the international press start rolling in.