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Forbidden Games (1952)
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Reviews Counted:9
Fresh:9
Rotten:0
Average Rating:8.8/10
Runtime: 1 hr 42 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: Young French girl Paulette is orphaned when her parents and pet dog are killed while fleeing the Nazis during World War II. While wandering through the countryside with her dead dog in her arms,... Young French girl Paulette is orphaned when her parents and pet dog are killed while fleeing the Nazis during World War II. While wandering through the countryside with her dead dog in her arms, she is befriended by farm boy Michel, who brings her home to stay with his family. They decide to create an animal cemetery for pets killed in the fighting and use monuments from the nearby human cemetery to mark the graves. This desecration, as well as a trivial feud between rival farm families, threaten the children's newfound friendship. [More]
Starring: Brigitte Fossey, Georges Poujouly
Starring: Brigitte Fossey, Georges Poujouly
Director: Rene Clement
Director: Rene Clement
Reviews for Forbidden Games
Rene Clement's 1944 adaptation of Francois Boyer's novel is an exquisitely unsentimental movie about the corruptive effect of war on children.
The film has lost its initial power over time and now looks too contrived to be a masterpiece.
This touching film, winner of the Venice Festival award, draws us deeply into the secret world of haunted by death children, in post- WWII Europe where, among other "games," they build a cemetry for dead animals.
Perhaps not until Ponette in 1996 had another movie looked so closely at how death might be absorbed through the eyes of a small child.
It's difficult to fault a film that scrutinizes the veracity of childhood with such clarity.
powerful filmmaking in more ways than one, a story of innocence lost that you won't soon forget
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