'태양은 가득히'의 르네 클레망이 연출한 '금지된 장난'이 5월 9일 필름포럼에서 개봉된다. 베니스영화제 황금사자상과 아카데미 최우수 외국어영화상을 수상한 '금지된 장난'은 나르시소 예페스의 기타 연주곡 '로망스'로도 널리 알려졌다. 

 

 

 

“SUBLIME! A MASTERPIECE!

– The Village Voice

 

BY THE DIRECTOR OF PURPLE NOON

 

RENÉ CLÉMENT’S FORBIDDEN GAMES 

ACADEMY AWARD ®, BEST FOREIGN FILM, 1953

GOLDEN LION, VENICE FILM FESTIVAL, 1952

NEW 4K RESTORATION RUNS MAY 9–15 AT FILM FORUM

 

 

FORBIDDEN GAMES, the 1952 French war drama by René Clément based on François Boyer's novel Les Jeux Interdits, will run in a new 4K restoration at Film Forum from Friday, May 9 to Thursday, May 15.

 

“Michel! Michel! Michel!” France 1940, as a refugee column trudges along a country road, a dog makes a break for it, with its tiny blonde mistress in pursuit — and then the German fighters strike. But if 5-year-old Brigitte Fossey’s understanding of death is limited as she strokes her mother’s cold face, at least she can bury the dog discarded by her peasant rescuers, aided by 11-year-old farm boy Georges Poujouly. As they build a special, secret friendship, their pet cemetery steadily grows, topped by crosses stolen from graveyards, even as the adults play their own games of grotesque peasant feuds... And then Fossey (“in a performance that rips the heart out” – The New York Times) shouts his name again.

 

A masterpiece of French post-war cinema by director René Clément (who would make the classic thriller Purple Noon, starring Alain Delon, eight years later), adapted by the legendary team of Jean Aurenche and Pierre Bost from Boyer’s successful novel, with a haunting hit score played by guitar virtuoso Narciso Yepes, the ultimately beautiful, hilarious and disturbing FORBIDDEN GAMES initially did so-so box office and screened only on the fringes of the Cannes Festival, then nearly got shut out of Venice — where it promptly won its top prize, the Golden Lion — and then became a worldwide art house smash and Clément’s second Best Foreign Film Oscar winner (following the previous year’s The Walls of Malapaga). 

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4 STARS! CRITICS' PICK!

– Time Out (New York)

 

“Clément’s notorious eclecticism can surely never have been so marked within a single film as in this all-purpose allegory, anti-war tract and noirish morality… World War II, holocaust, and petty family feuds form a perverse backdrop to their ‘innocence’ – or perhaps, a mirror to the ‘perversion’ of their forbidden games.”

– Paul Taylor, Time Out (London)

 

“It does not compromise on two things: the horror of war and the innocence of childhood… It is never a tear-jerker: it doesn’t try to create emotions, but to observe them. That’s why it’s so powerful.”

– Roger Ebert

 

“COMIC! The performances of Poujouly and the infinitely expressive Fossey are among the finest ever given by children.”

– Philip French, The Guardian

 

“Clément’s beautiful, lacerating film on the themes of innocence, Christianity, war, and death… [His] method of presentation [is] a series of harsh contrasts, with on the one side the intuitive, lyric understanding between the two children, and on the other the ludicrous comedy of the quarrelsome, ignorant peasant adults.”

– Pauline Kael

 

Director: René Clément

Producer: Robert Dorfmann

Screenplay: Jean Aurenche, Pierre Bost, François Boyer

Based on the novel by François Boyer

Cinematography: Robert Juillard

Score: Narciso Yepes

Cast: Brigitte Fossey, Georges Poujouly, Lucien Hubert

France | 1952 | In French with English subtitles | Approx. 87 min.

Rialto Pictures

Restored by Studiocanal

 

With support from the George Fasel Memorial Fund for Classic French Cinema