Rating: 7.8 (7,042 votes)
Runtime: 86 min
Metascore: N/A/100
Director: René Clément
Genre: Drama, War
Writer: Jean Aurenche (dialogue), Jean Aurenche (screenplay), Pierre Bost (dialogue), Pierre Bost (screenplay), François Boyer (dialogue), François Boyer (novel), François Boyer (screenplay), René Clément
Rated: Not Rated
Cast: Georges Poujouly, Brigitte Fossey, Amédée, Laurence Badie
Music : Narcisso Yepes
Released: 9 May 1952 (France); 08 Dec 1952 (USA)
Awards: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 8 wins.
Production: Times Film Corporation
Country: France
Plot :
A girl of perhaps five or six is orphaned in an air raid while fleeing a French city with her parents early in World War II. She is befriended by a pre-adolescent peasant boy after she wandered away from the other refugees, and is taken in for a few weeks by his family. The children become fast friends, and the film follows their attempt to assimilate the deaths they both face, and the religious rituals surrounding those deaths, through the construction of a cemetery for all sorts of animals. Child-like and adult activity are frequently at cross-purposes, however.
Forbidden Games (French: Jeux interdits), is a 1952 French war drama film directed by René Clément and based on François Boyer's novel, Jeux interdits. While not initially successful in France, the film was a hit elsewhere. It won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, a Special Award as Best Foreign Language Film in the United States, and a Best Film from any Source at the British Academy Film Awards.
It is June 1940, during the Battle of France. After five-year-old Paulette's parents and pet dog die in a German air attack on a column of refugees fleeing Paris, the traumatized child meets 10-year-old Michel Dollé whose peasant family takes her in. She quickly becomes attached to Michel. The two attempt to cope with the death and destruction that surrounds them by secretly building a small cemetery among the ruins of an abandoned barn, where they bury her dog and start to bury other animals, marking their graves with crosses stolen from a local graveyard, including one belonging to Michel's brother. Michel's father first suspects that Michel's brother's cross was stolen from the graveyard by his neighbour. Eventually, the father finds out that Michel has stolen the cross.
Meanwhile, the French police come to the Dollé household in order to take Paulette. Michel cannot bear the thought of her leaving and tells his father that he would tell him where the stolen crosses are, but in return he should not give Paulette to the police looking for her. His father doesn't keep his promise: Michel destroys the crosses and Paulette ends up going to a Red Cross camp, but at the end of the movie is seen running away into a crowd of people at a train station, crying for Michel and then for her mother. The film was widely praised among critics, whose "howling protests" were heard at the 1952 Cannes Film Festival where it was not an "official entry of France";instead, it was "screened on the fringe of the Competition."
The film was entered into competition at the 13th Venice International Film Festival; festival organizers at first considered the film ineligible because it had been screened at Cannes; it ended up receiving the Golden Lion, the Festival's highest prize.
Upon its release, it was lambasted by some, who said it was a "vicious and unfair picture of the peasantry of France"; in France, 4,910,835 theater tickets were sold. Following its December 1952 release in the United States, Bosley Crowther called it a film with "the irony of a Grand Illusion, the authenticity of a Harvest and the finesse of French films at their best"; according to Crowther, the film is a "brilliant and devastating drama of the tragic frailties of men, clear and uncorrupted by sentimentality or dogmatism in its candid view of life."
At the 25th Academy Awards, Forbidden Games won an out-of-competition Special Award as Best Foreign Language Film. In December 1952, at the 24th National Board of Review Awards it was chosen as one of that year's five top foreign films. At the 1952 New York Film Critics Circle Awards, it won for Best Foreign Language Film.
In 1954, it was BAFTA's Best Film from any Source; in 1955, at the 27th Academy Awards, François Boyer was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Story; Philip Yordan won, for his work on Broken Lance. Decades after its release, David Ehrenstein called it "deeply touching" and wrote: "Fossey's is quite simply one of the most uncanny pieces of acting ever attempted by a youngster. Clément’s sensitivity doubtless accounts for much of what we see here, but the rest is clearly Fossey’s own."
(The soundtrack was played by guitarist Narciso Yepes (1927-1997) was a Spanish guitarist. It includes an arrangement of the tune "Romance". Narciso Yepes interpreted and is listed as the author of the song in René Clément's 1952 film Jeux interdits (Forbidden Games). The popularity of the film gave the song worldwide fame. Yepes currently has the copyright of this composition in Spain although recordings and manuscripts of this song predate 1952.
"Romance Anónimo" (Anonymous Romance) is a piece for guitar, also known as "Estudio en Mi de Rubira" (Study in E by Rubira), "Spanish Romance", "Romance de España", "Romance of the Guitar", "Romanza" and " Romance d'Amour" among other names. It’s origins and authorship are currently in question. It is suspected of originally being a solo instrumental guitar work, from the 19th century. It has variously been attributed to Antonio Rubira, David del Castillo, Francisco Tárrega, Fernando Sor, Daniel Fortea, Miguel Llobet, Antonio Cano, Vicente Gómez and Narciso Yepes).
Nước Pháp trong thời kỳ bắt đầu Thế Chiến II, từng đoàn người lũ lượt kéo nhau đi tản cư rời khỏi thành phố để tránh né khói lửa chiến tranh. Nhưng cũng không được yên, máy bay Đức bay theo bắn phá khiến cho cha mẹ và con chó của một bé gái bị tử thương. Sau đó, em được một gia đình nông dân nghèo tiếp nhận và nuôi nấng. Ở nông trại, có một bé trai nghịch ngợm nhưng rất chí tình kết bạn thân thiết với em, hàng ngày cả hai vui chơi và đã nghĩ ra một trò chơi vô tình làm cho cả làng bị xáo trộn.
Bộ phim Forbidden Games (Trò chơi cấm) được sản xuất năm 1952 tuy lúc đầu không thành công nhiều tại Pháp, nhưng ở Hoa Kỳ nó đã đoạt nhiều giải thưởng cao quý…
Narciso Yepes (1927-1997 một Guitarist người Tây Ban Nha, đã diễn tấu một bản soạn cho guitar để thành nhạc đề cho bộ phim. Bản nhạc này chưa rõ nguồn gốc tác giả (khoảng thế kỹ 19) nhưng xuất xứ ban đầu là một bản soạn cho độc tấu guitar với các tên : "Romance Anónimo" (Anonymous Romance); "Estudio en Mi de Rubira" (Study in E by Rubira), "Spanish Romance", "Romance de España", "Romance of the Guitar", "Romanza" and " Romance d'Amour", Jeux interdits…và đã rất được phổ biến với các guitarist & arranger như Antonio Rubira, David del Castillo, Francisco Tárrega, Fernando Sor, Daniel Fortea, Miguel Llobet, Antonio Cano, Vicente Gómez and Narciso Yepes). Vì có quá nhiều tác giả gán cho nó, nên nhiều năm qua từ Anónimo (khuyết danh) thường đặt kề bên để trở thành bản Anónimo Romance (Anonymous Romance) - Bản Tình ca không tác giả.
Film trailer Jeux interdits lyrics Comme un enfant
Que l'on prend par la main
Et qui soudain comprend
Que son histoire est loin
Qu'il ne sentira plus
La chaleur de ses mains
Se cacher dans des jeux incertains.
Comme un regard
Dans lequel on retrouve
La douceur des siens
Un ami qui vous ouvre son coeur
Pour sourire à la vie
Et jouer à des jeux interdits.
Joue mon enfant
Comme le ferait le vent
Sur tes cheveux défaits
Grandir prendra du temps
Mettre en terre la vie
Reste un jeu pour les grands
Et toi, Michel, tu n'es qu'un enfant.
Cours ma douceur
Crie pour tes jours de pluie
La guerre a ses horreurs
Que personne ne l'oublie
Les bercer dans son coeur
C'est un jeu qu'on maudit
Rêve, oublie, ces jeux interdits
Comme une vie
Qui reprend son chemin
Comme un souffle un repère
Qu'on croyait incertain
L'innocenc e perdue un beau jour
Nous revient comme la mélancolie
De nos jeux interdits.
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