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Forbidden Games (French: Jeux Interdits) is a 1952 French war drama film directed by René Clément and based on François Boyer's novel Les Jeux Interdits. While not initially successful in France, the film was a hit elsewhere.
A young girl and a boy become friends after losing their parents in a German air attack during World War II. The film explores their grief, innocence and religious rituals in a moving and realistic way.
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- Comedy, Drama, War
- René Clément
- 1952-12-08
Feb 24, 2023 · Forbidden Games (French: Jeux interdits) is a 1952 French war drama film directed by René Clément and based on François Boyer's novel Jeux Interdits. While not initially successful in France, the film was a hit elsewhere.
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Dec 18, 2005 · We must turn to the past for a film as innocent as "Forbidden Games" (1952), because our own time is too cynical to support it. Here is a film about children using their powers of fantasy and denial to deal with death in wartime.
Sep 3, 2022 · Watch the restored version of Forbidden Games, a classic film by René Clément about the friendship between a boy and a girl orphaned by the war. The film won the Golden Lion at Venice and other awards.
- 86 min
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A timeless evocation of childhood innocence corrupted, René Clément’s Forbidden Games tells the story of a young girl orphaned by war and the farm boy she joins in a fantastical world of macabre play.
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What keeps Forbidden Games on an even dramatic keel are the near-perfect performances from the two kids. Little Brigitte Fossey is a five year-old Parisian charmer, frightened but adaptable and already possessing the ability to get a man (eight or nine year-old Georges Poujoly) to do her bidding.