DUNE: PART TWO
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EDITED BY JOHN NUGENT
The Shai-Hulud.
Bene Gesserit Princess Irulan (Florence Pugh)
Chani (Zendaya) and Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet)
Villain Feyd-Rautha (Austin Butler).
KEEP 'EM PEELED
The gladiator battle with Austin Butler’s Feyd-Rautha was shot by cinematographer Greig Fraser using IMAX cameras with infrared lenses, in order to depict a world almost entirely without colour — under a “black sun”.
FILM
★★★★
OUT NOW / CERT 12A / 167 MINS
DIRECTOR Denis Villeneuve
CAST Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Javier Bardem, Austin Butler, Josh Brolin, Florence Pugh, Christopher Walken, Stellan Skarsgård
PLOT On the planet Arrakis, Paul Atreides (Chalamet) joins the native Fremen people and plots revenge on the Harkonnens. But terrible visions tease a dire future.
YOU SENSE THAT Denis Villeneuve has been having Spice-fuelled visions his entire life. The filmmaker has spoken much of how reading Frank Herbert’s Dune at an early age cracked his mind wide open. Bringing the sci-fi tome’s heady mix of warring houses, psychedelic reveries, anti-colonialist themes and intergalactic action to the screen is, in a very real way, his life’s work. And once again, in Dune: Part Two, it seems the images Herbert conjured in Villeneuve’s head all those years ago are being ripped straight from synapse to screen.