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‘Dune’ Dazzles at Venice World Premiere With Timothée Chalamet in a Sparkly Suit — and a Six-Minute Standing Ovation
Dune” at the 78th annual Venice Film Festival, with a star-studded movie premiere that brought to mind how Hollywood used to throw a party in the days before the pandemic.But given the current realities of the world, the stars of “Dune” — including Javier Bardem, Zendaya, Stellan Skarsgaard, Oscar Isaac, Chen Chang, Sharon Duncan-Brewster and Josh Brolin — all donned masks inside the theater for the entirety of the film’s sprawling 155-minute runtime.The “Timothée” that practically all of Italy could hear about was, of course, Timothée Chalamet who plays Paul Atreides, a duke in a futuristic sci-fi society born out of Frank Herbert’s 1965 novel.
