Dune: Part Two (2024)
Country: US/CAN/UAE/GAM/HUN/IT/NZ/JOR
Technical: col/bw/1:2 166m
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Cast: Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Dave Bautista, Florence Pugh, Christopher Walken, Charlotte Rampling, Stellan Skarsgård
Synopsis:
Paul Atreides acquires the ways of the Fremen while Jessica, pregnant with his sister, becomes their reverend mother. Paul struggles with his complicity in a messianic legend implanted by the Houses, but has something to learn of his own ancestry; the Harkonnens fail to maintain spice production, and the Emperor takes direct action to secure it.
Review:
In this second part of an impossibly multi-layered novel series, Villeneuve lays emphasis on Paul's process of becoming some sort of liberator, transforming himself without succumbing to the dangers his second sight has warned him of. The echoes of Lawrence and the Arab Revolt, and by extension jihadism, suggested in the script by words like 'fundamentalism', are all the more apparent on screen, with its Jordanian locations and the resemblance of Bardem's Stilgar to Anthony Quinn's Auda! One wonders, not least because of the film's final frames, whether Paul will similarly be required to betray the forces he has harnessed. As such, Villeneuve, has achieved a perfect adaptation of his source, fleshing out hallmarks which were always present in the text so that they resonate with a contemporary audience. The incoherence suggested by the above synopsis is only rarely apparent, so well does the screenplay's structure cleave to the central dilemma of truth versus legend.
Country: US/CAN/UAE/GAM/HUN/IT/NZ/JOR
Technical: col/bw/1:2 166m
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Cast: Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Dave Bautista, Florence Pugh, Christopher Walken, Charlotte Rampling, Stellan Skarsgård
Synopsis:
Paul Atreides acquires the ways of the Fremen while Jessica, pregnant with his sister, becomes their reverend mother. Paul struggles with his complicity in a messianic legend implanted by the Houses, but has something to learn of his own ancestry; the Harkonnens fail to maintain spice production, and the Emperor takes direct action to secure it.
Review:
In this second part of an impossibly multi-layered novel series, Villeneuve lays emphasis on Paul's process of becoming some sort of liberator, transforming himself without succumbing to the dangers his second sight has warned him of. The echoes of Lawrence and the Arab Revolt, and by extension jihadism, suggested in the script by words like 'fundamentalism', are all the more apparent on screen, with its Jordanian locations and the resemblance of Bardem's Stilgar to Anthony Quinn's Auda! One wonders, not least because of the film's final frames, whether Paul will similarly be required to betray the forces he has harnessed. As such, Villeneuve, has achieved a perfect adaptation of his source, fleshing out hallmarks which were always present in the text so that they resonate with a contemporary audience. The incoherence suggested by the above synopsis is only rarely apparent, so well does the screenplay's structure cleave to the central dilemma of truth versus legend.
Country: US/CAN/UAE/GAM/HUN/IT/NZ/JOR
Technical: col/bw/1:2 166m
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Cast: Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Dave Bautista, Florence Pugh, Christopher Walken, Charlotte Rampling, Stellan Skarsgård
Synopsis:
Paul Atreides acquires the ways of the Fremen while Jessica, pregnant with his sister, becomes their reverend mother. Paul struggles with his complicity in a messianic legend implanted by the Houses, but has something to learn of his own ancestry; the Harkonnens fail to maintain spice production, and the Emperor takes direct action to secure it.
Review:
In this second part of an impossibly multi-layered novel series, Villeneuve lays emphasis on Paul's process of becoming some sort of liberator, transforming himself without succumbing to the dangers his second sight has warned him of. The echoes of Lawrence and the Arab Revolt, and by extension jihadism, suggested in the script by words like 'fundamentalism', are all the more apparent on screen, with its Jordanian locations and the resemblance of Bardem's Stilgar to Anthony Quinn's Auda! One wonders, not least because of the film's final frames, whether Paul will similarly be required to betray the forces he has harnessed. As such, Villeneuve, has achieved a perfect adaptation of his source, fleshing out hallmarks which were always present in the text so that they resonate with a contemporary audience. The incoherence suggested by the above synopsis is only rarely apparent, so well does the screenplay's structure cleave to the central dilemma of truth versus legend.