NOW PLAYING IN US THEATERS. COMING SOON TO DIGITAL.

FORBIDDEN GAMES

| 1952 (re-released in 2025 -Digitally restored) – 87′ – DRAMA, WAR, CLASSIC, FILMS & LITERATURE, PERIOD & HISTORY.
Written by: Jean Aurenche, Pierre Bost, René Clément,François Boyer.
Based on the Book by: François Boyer.
Directed by: René Clément.
Starring: Brigitte Fossey, Georges Poujouly, Lucien Hubert, Laurence Badie, Amédée, Madeleine Barbilee, Suzanne Courtal, Jacques Marin.
Winner Best Foreign Language Film (Academy Awards, 1952), Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival, 1952), Independent Grand Prix (Cannes Film Festival, 1952), Best Foreign Language Film (New York Film Critics Circle Awards, 1952).
In French with English subtitles.
A Rialto Pictures release. |

When her parents are killed by an air strike while trying to flee Paris during the German invasion, 5-year-old Paulette (Brigitte Fossey) wanders into the French countryside, where she encounters 11-year-old peasant boy Michel (Georges Poujouly). And as they build a special, secret friendship, the adults play their own games of buffoonish peasant feuds. A masterpiece of French post-war cinema by director René Clément (Purple Noon), with a haunting hit score played by guitar virtuoso Narciso Yepes, the ultimately beautiful, comic, and disturbing Forbidden Games won the Golden Lion, the top prize at the Venice Film Festival. Fossey shines “in a performance that rips the heart out” (New York Times).