For: a mastered epic
“What gave me the energy to return to Arrakis was the possibility of revisiting the Dune universe and doing better
,” admitted Denis Villeneuve during his visit to Paris.
Promise kept for Quebecers.
After carefully arranging his pieces, he reveals their full extent in this second part.
Without denying the contemplative and meditative atmosphere which had been his strength, the filmmaker enters into the reality of the guerrilla war (and soon the war) which pits the Fremen nomads against the empire and its cronies the Harkonnen.
More muscular in the action,
Dune, second part
picks up where we left off Paul Atréides (Timothée Chalamet) and his mother Lady Jessica (Rebecca Ferguson), taken in with suspicion by the Fremen.
Denis Villeneuve picks them up with an ambush and merciless hand-to-hand combat.
Outlined in the first part, the political and religious dimension comes to the fore in this mastered epic.
Is Paul the messiah who will lead the Fremen to freedom or not?…
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