Denis Villeneuve’s propulsive adaptation of “Dune,” nominated for Best Picture at tonight’s Oscars, delivers “a maximal teen-age power trip, made more believable by all-too-human details,” Ed Park writes.
” . Those films are brooding and immaculately lit, with sparse plots. The storytelling in “Dune” is much denser but lucid at every turn; the dazzling, deadly sandscape is a character in itself. The omnipresent heat and arid, embattled vistas are at once prophecies of climate change and, inevitably, evocations of “,” another series in which a young hero on a desert planet is tapped by a quasi-mystical sect to fulfill his revolutionary destiny.
Chalamet and Villeneuve bring verve and terror to the confrontation that opens the novel: a primal scene of teen-age powerlessness in the face of what appears to be arbitrary adult wickedness. The Reverend Mother of the Bene Gesserit, a notoriously strong, mostly female religious sect, commands Paul to place his hand in a strange box. When he asks what is inside the box, she replies, “Pain.
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