Word: forbidden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Forbidden Games is, in my opinion, a great motion picture. As a work of art, as an emotional experience, or as a demonstration of how skilfully the simplest techniques of motion pictures can be used, this French film ranks with the very best...
There is humor too. Even in the moments of strongest feeling there are elements of the ludicrous and the whimsical, springing mainly from an inter-family feud that weaves its way through the picture. But the humor is strictly secondary; Forbidden Games is a chronicle of people in turmoil, and as such it is high tragedy indeed...
...Forbidden Games won critics' plaudits for the perceptive...
Under the court's rules, lawyers or witnesses could only confirm or deny what newsmen asked them, were forbidden to volunteer information. It turned out to be a broad charter. Before the trial had well begun, it was plain that opposing lawyers notably Pat Ward's elegantly dressed belligerent lawyer J. Roland Sala (see NEWS IN PICTURES), were letting out bits of evidence to help their side, and attempting to try the case in the newspapers. After each court session, Star Witness Pat Ward, 19, who had started the whole case by charging that Jelke was boss...
...Forbidden Games. A small French masterpiece that looks at a grownup's warring world through the realistic eyes of a child (TIME...