It was due out in November 2020. Finally, the space epic of Quebec director Denis Villeneuve waited, like so many other films, a year in a drawer before entering cinemas - especially European - and the conquest of his. public.
Dune
is taken from Frank Herbert's SF saga,
Cycle Dune
, published between 1965 and 1985. If the adventures of young Paul Astréides have made an entire generation travel in time and space, there are many failed adaptations of it. literary monument.
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Dune
by Denis Villeneuve: a fair return to the origins
The challenge has not, however, stopped the filmmaker who signs, according to Olivier Delcroix in
Le Figaro
,
"a majestic fresco of ecological anticipation"
.
“When, after the critical success of
Blade Runner 2049
, he accepts the challenge of a new adaptation of this reputedly unsuitable novel-universe, he knows he's playing big. When you leave the room, you can better understand why the Dune de Villeneuve is such a great success. It is a judicious palimpsest which synthesizes with finesse the previous cinematographic versions. Villeneuve takes what is best in the
Lynch
version
»
, which had attempted the cinematographic adventure in 1984, causing a critical outcry.
Even today, his revisited version of
Dune
is considered one of the worst films of his career.
"Staggeringly beautiful"
La Voix du Nord
also delights in this
“hypnotic and stunningly beautiful SF opera”
when, at the
Parisian
, enthusiasm is required. The latter applauds
"the images in turn as close as possible to the characters, or on the contrary of disproportionate magnitude (choose the largest possible screen to see the film!), Underlined by music by Hans Zimmer, which is literally shamanic"
. For the daily newspaper, this adaptation is
"finally what the readers of the book no longer dared to hope: a cosmic epic of adult science fiction, even if it is visible to all audiences"
.
But if the "accessibility" of the feature film to a neophyte audience is welcomed, this clever balance between fidelity and clarity was not to the taste of our colleagues from
Liberation
, who see in Lynch's adaptation a poetry that does not exist in Villeneuve:
“Very flat, reading the Québécois focuses on events, facts, one would be tempted to write.
All the new age substrate that Lynch dug is evacuated and with the fantasy dimension of the story. "
"Never seen since Star Wars or The Lord of the Rings"
The Dauphiné Libéré
The newspaper
Le Monde
laments him, so that the film simultaneously on HBO Max and some movie theaters in the United States:
"In addition to the financial stakes for film revenue, the fact is that Villeneuve film - it's physical and sensory evidence - can be seen indoors or not. ”
He also points to
“some weaknesses”
which
“undoubtedly weaken the picture - starting with the readability of this story”
:
“But it would be necessary to be bad coucher not to wish that Denis Villeneuve proves us the opposite in the next opus”
, encourages he does.
See also
Dune
: cult work on paper, cursed in the cinema
For its part, the magazine
Marianne
mocks the promotional slogan displayed on the posters -
"Monumental and historical"
- and the myth maintained by the producers:
"History to spice up the unbearable suspense and, above all, to avoid piracy, the journalists had to give up their mobile phones before attending the press screenings of the "monument" organized a few days before the film's release. "
The 2h35 that the projection lasted did not seem to transcend the author of the article,
"nothing stunned by the" great "spectacle"
.
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Frank Herbert's
Dune
continues to fascinate half a century after its publication
The magazine
GQ
considers however that
Dune
gives to see
"the most impressive blockbuster of the year"
, and welcomes this feature film which
"unambiguously exposes thoughts related to imperialism, the exploitation of foreign resources and the disasters. ecological effects caused by such actions ”
.
"Never seen since
Star Wars
or
The Lord of the Rings
"
, ignites
Le Dauphiné Libéré
.
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