{"id":21864,"date":"2025-04-30T20:59:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T20:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/?p=21864"},"modified":"2026-01-23T17:32:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T17:32:23","slug":"forbidden-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/forbidden-games\/","title":{"rendered":"FORBIDDEN GAMES"},"content":{"rendered":"

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NOW PLAYING IN THEATERS. COMING SOON TO DIGITAL.<\/span><\/p>\n

FORBIDDEN GAMES<\/h2>\n

| 1952 (re-released in 2025 -Digitally restored) \u2013 87\u2032 \u2013 DRAMA, WAR, CLASSIC, FILMS & LITERATURE, PERIOD & HISTORY.
\nWritten by:\u00a0Jean Aurenche, Pierre Bost,\u00a0Ren\u00e9 Cl\u00e9ment,Fran\u00e7ois Boyer.
\nBased on the Book by:\u00a0Fran\u00e7ois Boyer.
\nDirected by:\u00a0Ren\u00e9 Cl\u00e9ment.
\nStarring:\u00a0Brigitte Fossey, Georges Poujouly, Lucien Hubert, Laurence Badie, Am\u00e9d\u00e9e, Madeleine Barbilee, Suzanne Courtal, Jacques Marin.
\nWinner Best Foreign Language Film (Academy Awards, 1952),\u00a0Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival, 1952),\u00a0Independent Grand Prix (Cannes Film Festival, 1952),\u00a0Best Foreign Language Film (New York Film Critics Circle Awards, 1952).
\nIn French with English subtitles.
\nA Rialto Pictures release. |<\/span><\/p>\n

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).\u00a0And 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 Ren\u00e9 Cl\u00e9ment (Purple\u00a0Noon), with a haunting hit score played by guitar virtuoso Narciso Yepes, the ultimately beautiful, comic, and disturbing\u00a0Forbidden Games\u00a0won the Golden Lion, the top prize at the Venice Film Festival. Fossey shines \u201cin a performance that rips the heart out\u201d (New York Times).<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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