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- 2021
- Denis Villeneuve
- 149 mins
- 12
Summary
Epic sci-fi drama starring Timothée Chalamet and Rebecca Ferguson. In the year 10,191, Paul Atreides and his mother, Lady Jessica, accompany Paul's father the Duke after he is made steward of the resource-rich desert planet Arrakis. Paul begins to feel that his destiny is entwined with that of the planet, but powerful enemies of House Atreides are plotting the family's destruction.
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A star rating of 4 out of 5.
Josh Winning
With Arrival and Blade Runner 2049, Denis Villeneuve proved he could fuse sci-fi spectacle with intricate plotting, and never lose sight of the emotion. He pulls off the same trick with this grandstanding Frank Herbert adaptation, a muscular coming-of-age tale set against the hellfire of interplanetary war. Timothée Chalamet plays young heir Paul Atreides, whose life is upended when his duke father (Oscar Isaac) becomes the custodian of Arrakis, an unforgiving world composed almost entirely of sand. But with the planet's former steward (a fantastically grotesque Stellan Skarsgård) planning an invasion, it's not long before their new home becomes a battlefield. Of course, that summary only scratches the surface of a film steeped in spirituality, "spice" visions, maternal determination and enormous sandworms. Chalamet brings inner steel and outer vulnerability to his role, and his scenes with Rebecca Ferguson, as his mother, are the film's most affecting. For Villeneuve, this is all but a slam-dunk that eradicates any memory of David Lynch's 1984 misfire: the only drawback is that it is merely the first part, and therefore feels incomplete without the concluding instalment. Still, Dune: Part One is sci-fi on a truly epic scale - complex, absorbing and impeccably styled, with a booming Hans Zimmer score and searing visuals that burn long in the mind.
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rolenamePaul AtreidesTimothée ChalametLady JessicaRebecca FergusonDuke Leto AtreidesOscar IsaacGurney HalleckJosh BrolinBaron Vladimir HarkonnenStellan SkarsgårdGlossu "Beast" RabbanDave BautistaThufir HawatStephen McKinley HendersonChaniZendaya Piter De VriesDavid DastmalchianDr YuehChang Chen Dr Liet KynesSharon Duncan-BrewsterReverend Mother MohiamCharlotte RamplingDuncan IdahoJason MomoaStilgarJavier Bardem
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rolenameDirectorDenis Villeneuve
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Theatrical distributor
Warner Bros
Released on
2021-10-22
Languages
English | English
Guidance
Violence
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DVD
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