Forbidden Games 12

German fighter planes massacre a column of refugees fleeing Paris on a country road. A dazed little orphaned girl is left wandering the fields clutching her dead dog. She’s adopted by a peasant boy who brings her into his eccentric family. The children retreat into a fantasy world, but they cannot hide from reality forever. Rene Clement’s angry masterpiece blends tragedy and farce into a heart-breaking account of children caught in a war they can’t possibly understand. Rene Clement’s reputation was obscured by the arrival of the French New Wave, but “Forbidden Games” stands alongside “La Grande Illusion” as one of the greatest anti-war statements ever filmed, and it made Brigitte Fossey a star at the age of just 5.

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