Dune: Part Two

"Three years after the first part, Frank Herbert's influential - and so far, "unadaptable" - science fiction novel, Dune, has finally been successfully adapted for the screen with the arrival of Dune: Part 2, directed by Denis Villeneuve. The story picks up where the first part left off: Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet) and his mother, Lady Jessica (Rebecca Ferguson), hide in the dangerous desert of the planet Arrakis with the native Fremen, whose customs they must learn while trying to find a way to resist the Harkonnens. In the process, Paul will struggle against the destiny created for him as the Lisan al Gaib, destined to free the Fremen... at a great cost. It's a fittingly spectacular conclusion to the adaptation initiated by Villeneuve three years earlier, with successes like the treatment of Zendaya's character, although also with some stumbles that detract from the emotional impact of the narrative. It also makes clear the limits of industrial cinema, which, even with its enormous resources - or perhaps because of them - is constrained in adapting the immense complexity of the novel."