Venice Film Festival: ‘Dune’ Leaves Us With 3 Big Queries
The spice should flow. But will audiences go?
Denis Villeneuve’s remarkably anticipated “Dune” premiered Friday at the Venice Film Competition, an unconventional spot to debut a sci-fi franchise-starter that expense upward of $160 million. Then all over again, “Dune” is not your standard tentpole.
It’s one thing dreamier and weirder, a motion picture that straddles the line involving auteurist artwork-film and studio blockbuster so provocatively that even after viewing it, I simply cannot very predict how “Dune” will fare when it comes out in theaters (and on HBO Max) on Oct. 22. When I remaining my screening, the initial critic I spoke to was thoroughly besotted. The next fled the theater as if Villeneuve had planted a bomb there.
Still, soon after a ten years of Marvel films designed with large-stage craftsmanship but handful of official risks, it is bracing to get a movie of this scale that will take