Ciné-Philo - Back to the future

Detailed presentation of the film by the speaker:

Rejected more than forty times by the major studios and the victim of various casting mishaps, Back to the Future has nonetheless enjoyed an unlikely success and a cult following: there are countless allusions, references and winks to the trilogy in popular culture. The first installment presents the extraordinary misadventures of a cool teenager from the mid-80s - Marty McFly - and his unlikely friend, professional mad scientist Dr. Emmett Brown, accompanied by his dog Einstein. Introduced by the gang, albeit rather clumsily, to difficult themes touching on the nature of time - particularly the past - freedom and action, viewers are on the other hand deftly immersed in a tangled yet light-hearted moral fantasy: that of a teenager meeting and rubbing shoulders with his own parents, who are themselves teenagers at the time. Moral fantasy or science fiction? That's the question and the philosophical issue we'll be raising in this Ciné-philo!

Introducing Ciné-Philo:

Ciné-Philo is a series of screenings and lectures based on an intellectual encounter between a university philosopher and a feature film. In a fairly short format (30 to 40 minutes per lecture), the lectures present both philosophical approaches to cinema and cinematographic approaches to philosophy. The lectures are followed by a time of exchange and discussion with the audience.

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