Rent Forbidden Games (1952)
4.0 of 5 from 120 ratings
1h 23min
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- Synopsis:
- 1940, Paulette (Brigitte Fossey), a young French girl, is orphaned in a Nazi air attack during the battle of France. She is befriended by Michel (Georges Poujouly), the son of a poor farmer whose family take her in to their home to care for her. Together the two children forge a tight bond, attempting to come to terms with the realities of the death and destruction that surrounds them by creating their own reality, building their own small graveyard to bury dead animals they find. In this sealed universe they have created, Paulette and Michel experience their first and most wonderful love story.
- Actors:
- Georges Poujouly, Brigitte Fossey, Amédée, Laurence Badie, Madeleine Barbulée, Suzanne Courtal, Lucien Hubert, Jacques Marin, Violette Monnier, Denise Péronne, Fernande Roy, Louis Saintève, André Wasley, Marcel Mérovée, André Enard, Madame Fossey, Monsieur Fossey, Louis Herbert, Bernard Musson, Annie Ravel
- Directors:
- René Clément
- Producers:
- Robert Dorfman
- Writers:
- Jean Aurenche, Pierre Bost, François Boyer, René Clément
- Others:
- François Boyer
- Aka:
- Jeux Interdits
- Studio:
- StudioCanal
- Genres:
- Classics, Drama
- Collections:
- A Brief History of the Tradition of Quality, All the Twos: 1902-62, Award Winners, BAFTA Nominations Competition 2023, BAFTA Nominations Competition 2024, BAFTA Nominations Competition 2025, BAFTA Nominations Competition 2026, Cinema Paradiso's Euro 24 Film Festival, Films & TV by topic, Lions on the Lido, A Brief History of Film...
- Countries:
- France
- Awards:
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 07/01/2013
- Run Time:
- 86 minutes
- Languages:
- French LPCM Mono
- Subtitles:
- English
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Full Screen 1.37:1
- Colour:
- B & W
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- 'Innocent Love Stories Under Occupation': Interview with Brigitte Fossey, Laurence Badie and Historian Denitza Bancheva
- Alternate Opening and Ending
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Reviews (4) of Forbidden Games
Small Graves, Big Feelings - Forbidden Games review by griggs
Some films sneak up on you — this one just knocks you flat. Forbidden Games opens in June 1940, with Parisians fleeing under Nazi fire. In the chaos, little Paulette chases her puppy across a bridge and loses everything else instead. It’s brutal, but oddly calm, like war has just become another kind of weather — something you endure if you’re lucky.
What comes next isn’t about innocence lost so much as innocence hanging on for dear life. Paulette ends up in the countryside and meets Michel, a kid just as bewildered by it all. Together they start building a tiny graveyard for the things war leaves behind — pets, toys, bits of normal life — a strange but touching way to make sense of it all.
What comes next isn’t about innocence lost so much as innocence hanging on for dear life. Paulette ends up in the countryside and meets Michel, a kid just as bewildered by it all. Together they start building a tiny graveyard for the things war leaves behind — pets, toys, bits of normal life — a strange but touching way to make sense of it all.
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Typical! - Forbidden Games review by CB
Typical French film....wonderful portrayal of rural life during the 2nd World War. The kids are excellent, and uneven casting of the adults doesn’t seem to undermine the film at all.
As ever with old French films.......charming.
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Rural by pace and atmosphere - Forbidden Games review by JD
The central theme of this film is death. First the death of the parents of the 4ish year old girl and then the 6ish year old boy's brother and then several animals.The setting is a remote, very rural, slightly backward, French farmhouse in the 2nd world war. It doesn't sound great but it is a really emotional journey from the point of perspective of young children. I have not scored it higher because of the acting, the children which while being excellent for their ages is only fair and the adults again is only fair.
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