Let me tell you a story about a boy and a book that would change his life. Around his 13th year on planet Earth, young Denis Villeneuve picked up Frank Herbert’s science fiction classic Dune. Perhaps feeling different or disconnected growing up in Quebec, there was something about Dune that transfixed Villeneuve.
As Villeneuve said to Tom Power on CBC’s Q, he connected with the journey of the main character Paul, a young man struggling with his heritage who saw a way to become a truer version of himself through embracing another culture.
Soon Villeneuve was on his own path, rising up the ranks in Canadian
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