Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Director: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Richard Dreyfuss, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon, François Truffaut
Runtime: 126’
Year of Production: 1977

Strange occurrences all over Earth start preparing the ground for the arrival of aliens whIle a family man becomes the witness of an unearthly experience and, all of a sudden, decides to follow the signals coming from the sky. The same signals that will lead him to the greatest adventure of his life.

In 1977, it was George Lucas' «Star Wars» that promised to transport the audience «to a galaxy far, far away» but «Close Encounters of the Third Kind» was ultimately the movie that brought Space onto Earth. The film - a milestone in Steven Spielberg’s career – deservedly won an Academy Award for Best Cinematography, employed dazzling special effects, gloriously paraded the mastery of one of the greatest camera wizards and invokes the mechanisms of fantasy cinema and allegory to bring them all together in a cinematic ritual that one is bound to watch in awe.

Among Spielberg’s most magnificent achievements, «Close Encounters of the Third Kind» is more than a superior Hollywood production. It is filmed with the eye turned towards the night sky and the countless possibilities of the Universe, while the heart is synched to a worldwide venture that starts from the individual and aims at the infinite. Panos Gkenas

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