Dune: Part One & Dune: Part Two – double bill

On 16 December, the long-awaited final instalment of Denis Villeneuve’s multi-award-winning Dune trilogy will premiere: Dune: Part Three. Where others have failed, Villeneuve has succeeded in bringing Frank Herbert’s novel series – once deemed unfilmable – to the big screen.

Reason enough for Rialto to screen Dune: Part One & Part Two once again, so that anyone who wishes to can lose themselves once more in the complex yet mesmerising world of the desert planet Arrakis, the House of Altreides and the ‘spice’.

Dune: Part One
In the distant future, Duke Leto Altreides is commissioned by Emperor Shaddam IV to replace Baron Harkonnen as governor of the planet Arrakis. A barren yet extremely valuable planet, as it is the only place where ‘spice’ is found – a mind-altering substance essential for interstellar travel. But Harkonnen is not taking this lying down. And can the Emperor be trusted? Starring Timothée Chalamet as Leto’s son, the clairvoyant saviour Paul Altreides.
  

Dune: Part Two
Baron Harkonnen has finally succeeded in bringing down House Altreides. Paul Altreides (Timothée Chalamet) is bent on revenge and is aided in this by his concubine Chani and the Fremen, the original inhabitants of the desert planet Arrakis, the place where the precious ‘spice’ is found. Paul faces a terrible dilemma, forcing him to choose between love and the fate of the universe, a fate known only to him.