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On Villeneuve's Hypermodern Dune

On Villeneuve's Hypermodern Dune

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Oct 24, 2021
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When I first watched Denis Villeneuve’s Dune on Friday night, I was disappointed and turned it off about two thirds of the way through. My initial impression was that the pacing was too slow and that the actors were too remote for me to care anything about their characters. Nevertheless, throughout the next day, images from the film kept haunting the pe…

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