Dina: The second partagain directed by Denis Villeneuve (Arrival) and starring Timothée Chalamet, preserves the unusual virtues of the first film, released in 2021: it has the same monumental power of scale — the film is a stunning vision of colossal planets, spaceships and monsters — and the cool nobility of temperament that befits an epic about a royal dynasty.
But 166 minutes The second part is even better, rising at the end to an exciting climax that could be called a cliffhanger — indicating the need for Dina: the third part, although such a project has yet to be announced.
The second part it will surely make you want to continue the story. (Imagine that Star Wars stopped at the end The Empire Strikes Back with Han Solo frozen forever and Luke Skywalker still reeling from unexpected daddy issues.) After enough time, you might even feel compelled to roll into Frank Herbert’s mammoth Dune novels and summarize sentences like this:
“Above all, Muad’Dib was kwisatz haderach which the breeding program of the Sisterhood has sought through thousands of generations.”
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The second part it mainly tells about the further struggles of Paul (Chalomet), a descendant of the once great, now coat of the House of Atreides, who is in First part he was swept up in a great tangle of hostilities involving the Emperor (franchise newcomer Christopher Walken) and the grotesque Baron Harkonnen (Stellan Skarsgard), who looks like an elephant seal caught in an oil slick.
Hiding on the desert planet of Arrakis (accent color: cinnamon), Paul has joined forces with a rebel nation, the Fremans, and develops a beautiful, if still tenuous bond with a brave warrior named Chani (Zendaya). Meanwhile, his mother (Rebecca Ferguson) imbibes a liquid that has the crystalline aqua-blue color of commercial mouthwash or toothwash. In fact, it is the Water of Life, which elevates her to a state of exalted reverence and mystical insight among the rebels. She is really upping her game!
Butler and Seydoux.
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There’s also a pleasant, nasty new villain, Feyd-Rautha, the Baron’s nephew: whom he plays Elvis’s Austin Butler with a bald head and toothless gums, he’s like a poison baby. In one remarkable segment, shot in near-black-and-white, he fights a gladiatorial battle in a vast stadium that could have been designed by the galaxy’s leading fascist architect.
The wealth of new characters and performers in the film gives a heightened sense of drama that is both grander and more nuanced than The first part. Florence Pugh, as the Emperor’s daughter, Princess Irulan, doesn’t have much to do here beyond wearing a metallic headdress that has a certain Art Deco flair — her costume cries out for beads — but she conveys the tactical intelligence and determination to serve the princess well in the end. As Lady Margot, a member of the aforementioned Sisterhood that has everything to do with Paul’s fate and nothing to do with travel pants, Léa Seydoux is seductive and mysterious.
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And Walken is wonderful – argumentative, petty, cruel – as the Emperor. He emits a thin hiss of neurotic energy that unexpectedly complements the film’s supreme seriousness. (This serves as a reminder that, despite Walken’s recent BMW commercial, he can be imitated, but not equaled.)
Anya Taylor-Joy makes a brief cameo, just long enough to catch her fiery eyes on screen, as a woman who will be significant if the third Dune the movie ever starts.
The only thing that worries, unfortunately, is Chalamet: his performance in First part was both passionate and intelligent. Here it is difficult to say whether he fully understands Paul’s ruthlessness and will. Paul, in the Shakespearean manner of fantasy epics, must mature into the leader that destiny demands. In the grand finale, Chalamet mostly seems flustered and annoyed, like someone disappointed with his hotel accommodation. You wonder if he wasn’t better off making them Wonka chocolates. Oh, Timbo!
That much-needed third film, of course, could put those nagging doubts to rest. Take your time. But it would be good to have.
Dina: The second part it’s in theaters March 1.
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