This is one of the 10 Science Fiction Movies You Must See in Your Lifetime: Released 46 years ago, this first effort is a masterstroke!

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Animation, Western, fantasy or comedy… a few years ago the editorial team of AlloCiné set out to review all the founding genres of cinema and after long and in-depth discussions determined which works were essential.

Naturally, sci-fi caught our attention early on, and so we tasked ourselves with selecting 10 seminal feature films. In terms of eclectic eras and filmmakers, our list clearly has a special place for Steven Spielberg, who has offered many gems to the genre.

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Spielberg and science fiction

We could just as easily cite an apocalyptic world war, a horrifying minority report, a shocking artificial intelligence, and of course the indescribable so-called. The third kind, the first attempt, which turned out to be masterful.

In 1978, after the shock of Jaws, which had already made quite a few waves in cinemas, the aspiring filmmaker tried his hand at a genre that, even if he might not have known it at the time, continued throughout his career, in various forms. At the time, it was a personal, intimate, and relatively optimistic look that Spielberg took on the world of SF.

What is it about?

Told through the eyes of his father, played by Richard Dreyfuss, Close Encounters of the Third Kind chronicles the increasingly strange phenomena appearing around the world, foreshadowing the arrival of extraterrestrial beings on Earth. Against and against the recommendations of the federal government, Roy Near, who thought he saw a “flying saucer” flying over his car, tries at all costs to find out the truth.

Already set in the emblematic atmosphere of what Spielberg’s cinema would become – tinged with adventure, magic, mystery and excitement – the maestro’s fifth feature ended with a memorable sequence that would go down in science fiction history. The film also allowed Spielberg to touch another giant of cinema: Frenchman François Truffaut, to whom he offered the role of Professor Claude Lacombe.

With an average rating of 4,017 stars out of 5 from AlloCiné viewers and nominated for an Oscar in 7 categories, Close Encounters of the Third Kind set many milestones in Spielberg’s filmography, as well as in the history of cinema and science fiction.

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