Director
Denis Villeneuve
USA, Canada / 2024
166 min.
/ 70 mm
/ Original version with German subtitles
with
Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Javier Bardem, Christopher Walken, Léa Seydoux, Josh Brolin, Stellan Skarsgård, Charlotte Rampling
Original language
English
Colonialism, religious war, and totalitarianism are central themes of Frank Herbert's science fiction cycle of novels "Dune", which he started publishing in the 1960s. In the sequel to the remake DUNE: PART TWO that features a star-studded cast - Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Javier Bardem, Christopher Walken, Léa Seydoux, Josh Brolin, Stellan Skarsgård, Charlotte Rampling – Prince Paul Atreides and his mother find refuge with the Fremen desert people after an attack by the Harkonnen. "DUNE: PART TWO is really a masterpiece, a world-creating epic. It is above all Villeneuve's visual imagination that carries this film: The Fremens' clothing, which makes them look like futuristic mujahideen. The desert, to which Villeneuve constantly gives new colors. The architecture on Arrakis, a mixture of the pyramids of ancient Egypt and the concrete brutalism of the 1970s. Not since Stanley Kubrick has a director designed a film as a world with such detail-obsessed precision." (Tobias Rapp)