“I know you,” murmurs Paul, the young protagonist of Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune.” He’s referring to a beautiful woman who has wandered in his unconscious, all windswept hair and piercing gaze, halfway between dream and perfume advert. Now she stands before him, flesh and blood; a vision no more. Yet she’s flintier than anticipated, brusquer than the fantasy. Expectation, meet reality.
Denis Villeneuve on why he cast Timothée Chalamet in ‘Dune’
Oct 22, 2021 | 4:08 AM