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Dune: Part 1 film image; two people standing in a vast sandscape

A mythic and emotionally charged hero’s journey, Dune tells the story of Paul Atreides, a brilliant and gifted young man born into a great destiny beyond his understanding, who must travel to the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure the future of his family and his people. As malevolent forces explode into conflict over the planet’s exclusive supply of the most precious resource in existence—a commodity capable of unlocking humanity’s greatest potential—only those who can conquer their fear will survive.

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Denis Villeneuve
Denis Villeneuve was born in Gentilly, Quebec, and studied film at l’Université du Québec à Montréal. His feature Polytechnique (09) received nine Genie Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. His other acclaimed features include Un 32 août sur terre (98), Maelström (00), Incendies (10), Prisoners (13), Enemy (13), Sicario (15), and Arrival (16), all of which played the Festival, and Blade Runner 2049 (17). Dune (21) is his latest film.

Villeneuve’s Dune is a thick, loud, well-fed spectacle of a movie, towering over the people in it with a brooding sense of intention — even in its quieter moments, even when wrestling through the Herbert novel’s wide-ranging, learned, quirky mysticism.

K Austen Collins, Rolling Stone

A serious, stately opus.

New York Times

Director

Denis Villeneuve

Cast

Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Josh Brolin, Stellan Skarsgård, Dave Bautista, Sharon Duncan Brewster, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Zendaya

Credits
Country of Origin

USA

Year

2021

Language

English

Awards

4 Academy Awards (Score, Production Design, Visual FX, Sound)

19+
155 min

Book Tickets

Saturday March 01

12:30 pm
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Credits

Producer

Denis Villeneuve, Mary Parent, Cale Boyter, Joe Caracciolo Jr.

Screenwriter

Jon Spaihts, Denis Villeneuve, Eric Roth

Cinematography

Greig Fraser

Editor

Joe Walker

Original Music

Hans Zimmer

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