DUTCH GAME WEEK FILM PROGRAM: CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (1977)
During Dutch Game Week, Chassé Theater will screen multiple films to celebrate. One of them is Steven’s Spielberg sciencefiction classic Close Encounters of the Third Kind. This screening includes a special Dutch Game Week introduction by Steve Morris (BUas).
Amidst a series of inexplicable events, Roy Neary (Richard Dreyfuss) sees a UFO on a deserted road while investigating a large-scale power outage. After this experience, he becomes increasingly obsessed with UFOs and extraterrestrial life. He distances himself further and further from his wife and children, but also gets closer to the investigations being carries out by scientists, military personnel and other survivors of encounters who are trying to communicate with the mysterious extraterrestrial presence.
Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind is a movie which takes the storyline and themes of earlier films and enriches them with the latest developments in film and space technology of the time.
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