2024-02-27 19:02:50
There’s always a Timothée Chalamet coming from somewhere in the cinema. He has just attracted 270,000 people to Swiss cinemas with “Wonka”, and now he is fighting once more in “Dune”. Image: www.imago-images.de
Review
The second part of Denis Villeneuve’s desert planet epic is at least as good as the first. At least.
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There are things you fall into. Into the water. And into love – which is why “falling in love” in English also means “to fall in love”. You fall and fall and in falling there is an astonishment and a gentle defenselessness. And that’s how you fall into “Dune: Part Two” – the two and a half years that have passed since the first part are forgotten in the first words and images, there we are once more, in a world made entirely of sand, between the dunes of Arrakis, the hot, golden planet where a surprising number of young people who are destined for greatness fight and fall in love.
There is Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet), possibly the savior of Arrakis, possibly the enlightened one, who is supposed to lead the desert people of the Fremen (from “Free Men”, freed slaves) to a “paradise” that is as green as possible. There is Chani (Zendaya), a Fremen leader, a prototypical Amazon, and also a member of a death squad.
Trailer zu «Dune: Part Two»
Paul and Chani fall in love, that is one of their many determinations. It’s touching when they sit on a dune in the evening in their “distillation” suits that recycle all moisture and body fluids, rave regarding how beautiful a world made of sand is, and passively sniff “spice” together. Spice is Arrakis’ only raw material, a type of hallucinogenic spice mixture that is extracted from the top layers of sand. In the lower ones live sandworms, huge creatures with a maw made entirely of spines, but anyone as clever as the Fremen can surf the desert on them.
Zendaya is brilliant as the desert warrior Chani.Image: www.imago-images.de
And there is the other side: Princess Irulan (Florence Pugh), daughter of the emperor who delegated the depower and murder of Paul’s father to the monstrous Harkonnen. And Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen (Austin Butler), a pale, bald-headed psychopath with great similarities to Stephen King’s clown from “It”, who will be in charge of Arrakis in the future. And like Irulan and Paul’s mother Jessica, the beautiful Lady Margot Fenring (Léa Seydoux) also belongs to the all-powerful and clairvoyant sisterhood of the Bene Gesserit, which has one thing in mind above all: manipulation and semen theft. Lady Margot knows exactly how to get someone like Feyd-Rautha, with “desire and humiliation”.
Power stands once morest cunning, totalitarianism once morest anarchism, fundamentalism once morest rationality, there is peace nowhere, not among the individual parties, but not within families either, no child trusts father or mother, but at least there is a secret understanding between Paul and his unborn child Sister, right at the beginning he talks to the fetus in the womb, to a being so strange, so floating and as bright as a lonely shining star in space.
Two profiles that complement each other perfectly: Austin Butler as Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen and Léa Seydoux as Lady Margot Fenring.Image: keystone
And this tiny fetus creates the typical Denis Villeneuve effect, this unique visuality that makes you feel strangely comfortable even in the most inhospitable Arrakis. Basically, the visionary Villeneuve in “Dune” is primarily concerned with the one element that is missing on Arrakis and is only present in underground reservoirs: water.
The fetus is the only living being that is allowed to live entirely in water and to which we can feel a kinship in the safe night of the cinema. For others, water means enormous hardship, obtaining it often means murder (it’s amazing what can be extracted from a corpse like that), and crying means wasting water. And it influences the imagination of even the most sober engineers: the Harkonnen’s spice harvester resembles an octopus, their helicopters, sorry, ornithopters, buzzing dragonflies. Vielleuve has always merged the high-tech with the organic, giving the machines an innocence that is actually their own. Only those who command them are evil.
In contrast to the first part of “Dune”, which often resembled a sandy meditation session, there is far more action happening in the second part. People once morest sand, people once morest machines, Willy Wonka once morest Elvis. Sorry, Chalamet once morest Butler or Paul once morest Feyd-Rautha, the two were not expected to have so much martial seriousness and elegant fitness. And the “bloodlines,” which always somehow interject dynastically, reveal something terrible.
Paul’s mother Jessica (Rebecca Ferguson) has the Fremen scripture written on her face.Image: keystone
The world of the Harkonnen is now even more clearly a fascist one than in the first part, the ring scene shot in black and white looks like it was copied from Leni Riefenstahl, that’s a clear setting, but not a completely foreign one in the sci-fi genre. And the holy war of the South, which Paul, increasingly drunk with his own power, joins, also has its real political component.
Power is the wrong path to peace, no matter who holds it, says Villeneuve, says Frank Herbert, whose first “Dune” novel has finally been told with Villeneuve’s second “Dune” film. Shortly before the start of the second part, Villeneuve more or less promised a third. Zendaya and Chalamet would be there, the two of them like to talk regarding how much they can trust Villeneuve and that he has asked himself every question they ask him a hundred times and is incredibly sure of his answer. They had never felt so at home during a film shoot. Protected like the fetus in amniotic fluid.
“Dune: Part Two” is also a fashion show
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“Dune: Part Two” is also a fashion show
On the premiere tour for “Dune: Part Two”, Zendaya (pictured), Florence Pugh, Timothée Chalamet and Austin Butler are the coolest film ensemble that the world and space have seen to date.
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You can feel it, you can see it, there is no insecurity in Villeneuve’s ensemble, no matter how much spice or related things Frank Herbert himself may have consumed while writing. Chalamet and the others play the evil ones, the chosen ones, the resistant ones and all the pathos in the epic with a matter-of-factness and dedication that is almost a little worrying.
So if there is perhaps a third part in two or three years, there must be something other than the Fremen war once morest the Harkonnen, something next, you can already guess what that might be, there is a tiny teaser, and yes , of course you definitely want to see it once more, you want to surrender and surrender to this film, which uses gigantic means to announce that gigantomy is a crime (but that’s nothing new in SciFi either), until you feel the sand between your fingers and in The rhythm of Hans Zimmer’s soundscape breathes.
“Dune: Part Two” lasts 166 minutes and will be in cinemas from February 29th.
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