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Forbidden Games (1952)

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Reviews Counted:9

Fresh:9

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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

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Rene Clement's 1944 adaptation of Francois Boyer's novel is an exquisitely unsentimental movie about the corruptive effect of war on children.

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04/19/09
Cole Smithey
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The film has lost its initial power over time and now looks too contrived to be a masterpiece.

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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.

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12/12/05
Emanuel Levy
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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.

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12/07/05
Matt Brunson
Matt Brunson
Creative Loafing

It's difficult to fault a film that scrutinizes the veracity of childhood with such clarity.

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12/04/05
Ed Gonzalez
Ed Gonzalez
Slant Magazine

powerful filmmaking in more ways than one, a story of innocence lost that you won't soon forget

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Christopher Null
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04/03/04
Daniel M. Kimmel
Daniel M. Kimmel
Worcester Telegram & Gazette

Strange, compelling offbeat drama about a war orphan with a morbid fixation.

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11/20/03
Ken Hanke
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