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
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
US Box Office: $0
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,... [More]
Reviews for Forbidden Games
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03/26/09
Top CriticThe film has lost its initial power over time and now looks too contrived to be a masterpiece.
09/04/08
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02/09/06
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01/20/06
Top CriticThis 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.
12/12/05
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.
12/07/05
It's difficult to fault a film that scrutinizes the veracity of childhood with such clarity.
12/04/05
powerful filmmaking in more ways than one, a story of innocence lost that you won't soon forget
11/23/05
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04/03/04
Strange, compelling offbeat drama about a war orphan with a morbid fixation.
11/20/03
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05/24/03
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