Dune 2, Thriller in the Teachers’ Lounge, D’Amore Caracas and 7 other films in cinemas or streaming

You immediately think of a fashion show with those turbans and armor, with the digital perfection of the interiorsthe warm design of objects, including poison vials, the arrangement of colors in the desert expanse, in battle scenes or cyclopean sandstorms, from orange to liquefied black, from brown-beige to pearl gray. It makes one think of a gallery of trends, approaches, duels, courtships and loves. It makes one think of a recovering world that has found courage after ecological, social and moral destructionwho knows how to respond to evil and cut off the scourge of injustice, whatever the cost.
Small men dominate huge creatures. When Timothe Chalamet / Paul Atreides plows through the sand on giant worms, the feeling is the same as a chariot race Ben How. And since first impressions count, we can say that Dune Parte Duethe mathematical sequel to the 2021 film by Denis Villeneuve, the carriage pilot of a science fiction renewal process, with author supplements and overwhelming pages designed to leave a mark. Not just any film, on the contrary. Taken from the pages of Frank Herbert and loosely inspired by David Lynch’s 1984 classic, Dune 2 takes an alternative path and strives for a balance of composition and themes that combines Hollywood, entertainment, good cinema education and even the devil Business.
Denis Villeneuve is a director who leaves no unfinished business, and what interests him most are the degenerations of power, understood as tyranny over peoples and people. You know the plot and if you don’t know it, you can guess it. After the violent death of his father Leto Duke Paul Atreides on the run among the Fremen with his mother, Lady Jessica (Rebecca Ferguson), who belongs to the Bene Gesserit caste, priestess-witches capable of predicting the future. welcomed by the leader Stilgar (Xavier Bardem), but above all by the warrior Chani (Zendaya), who falls in love with Paul, who is renamed Usul. The two swear eternal love under the red sun of Arrakisthe planet of dunes and invigorating spices, pursued by the Harkonnen, the neo-Nazi family led by the obese Baron Vladimir (Stellan Skarsgard), who, in concert with him, exterminated the Atreides Emperor Shaddam IV (Christopher Walken) is now supported by his ambitious daughter (Florence Pugh)..
The leader of the Harkonnens is the fearsome Rabban (Dave Bautista), whose job it is to eliminate Paul and the Fremen in one fell swoop, but he can’t get a spider out of the hole. Integration with the people of the desert occurs through the elevation of Lady Jessica to Reverend Mother and Paul to Messiah/Savior/Political Leader. All clear until Enter Finale with Harkonnen’s cousin, the hairless and psychopathic badass Fred Rautha (Austin Butler). Things that make your head spin, an input multiplier, quotes, subliminal messages.
The Fremen are a group of oppressed peoples striving for liberation under the rule of the dictatorship. Paul is a big boy with no identity who is confronted with his responsibilities through the death of his father. The bad guys, all deformed in appearance, have no foresight: on their side there is only the dagger, but that is not enough to stop the uprising of the righteous. The muscular suffering that dominates the story becomes the key to getting to the message. All characters are supermen or superwomen because they have to survive in a hostile and savage world. They maintain an inner fragility that creates empathy.
Chani is an emancipated woman: she fights like a man, but knows how to maintain her femininity. Love makes them more fragile and exposed to the fury of emotions. Lady Jessica expresses the family’s strength in the face of adversity. The film has an epic, gigantic, Babel-like atmosphere and in the cast, not to forget anyone, Also taking part are La Seydoux, Josh Brolin, Anya Taylor-Joy, Tim Blake and Charlotte Rampling. Seydoux and Taylor-Joy will star in the final chapter of the trilogy. The Messiah. Conclusion: If you liked the first chapter, you can’t do without the second.

PART DUE by Denis Villeneuve
(USA-Canada, 2024, Duration 166′, Warner Bros. Pictures)
with Timothe Chalamet, Zendaya, Austin Butler, Christopher Walken, Florence Pugh, La Seydoux, Rebecca Ferguson, Josh Brolin, Dave Bautista, Javier Bardem, Stellan Skarsgard, Charlotte Rampling, Souheila Yacoub
Rating: **** out of 5
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