Both Dune and the Princess Di biopic 'Spencer' premiered to cheers and standing ovations at the 2021 Venice Film Festival. Only one of them is good. Our report:
.) Yet what the French-Canadian filmmaker has crafted is an odd, beautiful, batty and altogether singular pastiche of stylistic flourishes that turn a typical hero’s-journey narrative — the first half of one, anyway; more on that in a second — into a steroidal head trip. This is a tale as old as time, turned into a state-of-the-art delivery system for complete cinematic overload.
There’s more, so much more, from Stellan Skarsgard doing his best Brando-as-Kurtz portrayal as Baron Harkonnen, to Josh Brolin and Jason Momoa as respective fight trainers/mentors to Paul , to the body sheilds that glow and hum and turn hand-to-hand combat into a wash of blues and reds. After three hours, we exit at the novel’s halfway point; there’s still an entire war and messianic ascent to get to.
At the press conference, Villeneuve claimed that he wanted to make something that felt like a physical experience — something as immersive as possible. He’s done that. And not to get too bogged down into the theatrical-or-not question, butdefinitely doubles as a reminder why such shared, overwhelming experiences need to be kept alive, yet another reason why its premiere at an in-person festival that’s keep things safe for its patrons strikes such a chord. Heed the rumble.
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