Jamie Lang Few films will hit the screens of this year’s 78th Venice Film Festival with more hype around them than Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune.”“Dune” is set in the distant future, when noble houses lead a feudal system with entire planets as their fiefs.
Its protagonist, Paul Atreides, is the son of Duke Leto Atreides and Lady Jessica, a member of the matriarchal religious sect called the Bene Gesserit.The story begins with the family ordered to relocate to the desert world of Arrakis and oversee the harvest of melange, commonly called spice, a drug which drives the entire economy of the “Dune” universe.
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