Denis Villeneuve’s Dune had its official world premiere here at the Venice Film Festival on Friday evening and had the Sala Grande reverberating like a thropter as it gave the adaptation of Frank Herbert’s 1965 sci-fi classic a seven-minute standing ovation.
Deadline was present and timed the applause, which ended only after the director humbly indicated that it was time to go.In his review, Deadline’s Pete Hammond called the film a “spectacular and defining version of the sci-fi cult classic.”The Warner Bros/Legendary epic, which is billed as Part I, played earlier in the day for the press — with delegates asked to seal their phones inside plastic pouches for the duration of the screenings.
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