The desert planet of Arrakis crashed into the Italian water city Friday and made an enormous splash as Denis Villeneuve’s wildly anticipated sci-fi epic Dune received its very first press screenings at the Venice International Film Festival.
Despite all reviews being embargoed until the film’s world premiere on Friday night — where stars Timothée Chalamet, Oscar Isaac, Josh Brolin, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson and Javier Bardem are all set to walk the red carpet — many of those lucky enough to score a seat for the film’s 8:15 a.m. debut press screening could be found raving up and down the Lido throughout the morning. Meanwhile, any tidbits of information about the movie to leak from the screening online were being lapped up on social media among fans desperate to know whether the film had lived up to epic expectations.
“Sometimes you just know when you’ve seen an all-time great,” tweeted film writer Awais Irfan. “And #Dune is, to me, an all-time great. Denis Villeneuve’s masterpiece is a sweeping symphony of spectacle, sound, and storytelling. A cinematic odyssey that is every bit as visceral as it is epic.”
“Jaw-dropping gorgeous to watch, rousing to experience,” tweeted writer Lorenzo Ciorcalo. “It pumps and pumps and pumps that spice in your veins. Ferguson is commanding, intense as usual. Chalamet gives his best in such a subdued action role. Geometric elegance in chaos.”
Meanwhile, Marvin Wiechart of Germany’s Yorck Kinogruppe cinema chain said the film was “...
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