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...Best foreign-language film: France's Forbidden Games...
...Janeiro, President Getulio Vargas ordered a tighter control over the Brazilian Confederation of Dove Fanciers. His decree: people who profess ideologies contrary to the legal regime are henceforth forbidden to raise carrier pigeons...
...Forbidden Games. Two children play at death in a biting French allegory about war (TIME...
...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...