Masked Matinees: Three Thousand Years of Longing

The Coolidge is pleased to offer fully masked, reduced capacity matinee shows of first-run films.

We're offering select showtimes of our first-run films sold at 25% capacity, giving the limited audience plenty of room to socially distance. Masks will be mandatory for the entire show, and no concessions will be sold.

Dr Alithea Binnie (Tilda Swinton) is an academic - content with life and a creature of reason. While in Istanbul attending a conference, she happens to encounter a Djinn (Idris Elba) who offers her three wishes in exchange for his freedom.

This presents two problems. First, she doubts that he is real and second, because she is a scholar of story and mythology, she knows all the cautionary tales of wishes gone wrong. The Djinn pleads his case by telling her fantastical stories of his past. Eventually she is beguiled and makes a wish that surprises them both.