Long before I sat down in a theater to watch it, I knew I was going to love Dune: Part Two, Denis Villeneuve’s second film in his take on the epic 1965 sci-fi novel from Frank Herbert. I’ve read the first book several times, finished the subsequent sequels, caught several viewings of David Lynch’s Dune, and even watched Jodorowsky’s Dune, the documentary about a failed first attempt to translate the novel to screen.
The beauty and brilliance of the Dune sequel are perfectly encapsulated in the scenes that take place on Giedi Prime, the homeworld of the evil Harkonnen family, led by Baron Vladimir Harkonnen . Strikingly, Giedi Prime’s exterior shots are in black and white, thanks to the black sun upon which the planet orbits.