Forbidden Games with Brigitte Fossey: DVD Cover

    Forbidden Games
    a.k.a. Les Jeux Interdits, Forbidden Games, The Secret Game Director: René Clément Cast: Brigitte Fossey, Georges Poujouly, Amedee, Lucien Hubert

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    • DVD Release Date: 06/16/2009
    • Original Release: 1952
    • Rating: Not Rated
    • Sales Rank: 6,031

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    Disc #1 -- Essential Art House: Forbidden Games
    1. Opening Credits/June 1940 [9:11]
    2. Paulette and Michel [5:01]
    3. "She Came From the Road" [3:30]
    4. "This Is No Time to Die" [2:31]
    5. Comforting Paulette [5:22]
    6. "May the Good Lord Receive Them" [4:16]
    7. The Mill [3:56]
    8. A Son Dies [6:35]
    9. Young Gouard Returns [7:19]
    10. A Funeral ... and Accusations [8:17]
    11. Sins [9:02]
    12. Trouble in the Cemetery [5:16]
    13. Michel Goes Missing [5:32]
    14. The Police Arrive [7:24]
    15. Little Girl Lost [2:27]
    16. Color Bars [:00]

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    One of the first films to see the horrors of war through the eyes of children, Forbidden Games was a critical smash, winning prizes from the New York Film Critics, the British Academy, and the Venice Film Festival. Adapted by Francois Boyer, director Rene Clement, and two others from Boyer's novel, the story focuses on Paulette (Brigitte Fossey), a five-year-old refugee from Paris taken in by a peasant family after her parents are killed during a bombardment of a civilian convoy. Michel Dolle (Georges Pujouly), the family's 11-year-old son, becomes her best friend, and they create a cemetery in which Paulette's dog is interred, along with other animals and insects, some of whom the children kill themselves. The Dolle family is too busy feuding with the Gouards, their neighbors, to notice the absence of the children. Eventually, authorities locate Paulette and insist that she be placed in an orphanage for legal adoption. Unsentimental and yet heartbreaking, Forbidden Games demonstrates the strategies of children who witness war to deal with the constant presence of death. It's also a bitter condemnation of the selfishness of adults who could offer their charges more love and protection. Tom Wiener, All Movie Guide

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    This is one of the best classics i have seen.by Anonymous

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    November 15, 2009: A truly classical movie dealing with the mostly unseen side of WW2 from a child's point of view. The sudden loss of parents in a cruel and upside down turned world that a young girl cannot understand, establishing a new friendship with a farmer's son, and in the last scene the realization that she has lost everything and is really alone in an uncaring world. The acting is excellent and so is the cinematography catching the emotions. I have seen this movie when it was first released and I enjoyed just as much seeing it again. Narcisso Yepes'selection and play of the movies musical theme adds further depth to this excellent film.