Jane Campion leads roll-call of worthy winners as Baftas hit all the right notes
msn.comThe Harder They Fall, starring Jonathan Majors, Zazie Beetz and Idris Elba. It is a headbangingly, flesh-splatteringly freaky debut from Jeymes Samuel that reclaims the African-American side of the genre.
The drumbeat of brutality became a bit too uniform for me, but it it stylishly made. Related: Baftas 2022: The Power of the Dog wins best picture and director Denis Villeneuve’s colossal science fiction adventure Dune, taken from Frank Herbert’s classic novel, is a big film in every way and appropriately it was a huge winner at last night’s Baftas, including for Hans Zimmer’s thrumming musical score.
This was a movie that benefited from the reopening of cinemas, a movie about a doomed colonial tyranny on a mineral-rich planet, a movie whose ineffable vastness has to be experienced on the big screen.
These awards feel like justice, although they might reinforce the impression that Dune was a cloudy impressionistic experience: one giant visual effect whose actual narrative is fading in the memory.
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