Denis Villeneuve’s fantasy epic finds a happy truce between booming multiplex blockbuster and moody arthouse drama
une reminds us what a Hollywood blockbuster can be. Implicitly, the message of Denis Villeneuve’s fantasy epic, written again and again in the sand, is that big-budget spectaculars don’t have to be dumb or hyperactive, that it’s possible to allow the odd quiet passage. Adapted from, Dune is dense, moody and quite often sublime – the missing link between the multiplex and the arthouse.
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