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...does not seem to notice that his new masters have unconscionably broadened the definition of criminal. Meanwhile, back in the underworld, Occupation spells opportunity for Dutronc and his pals-until his common-law wife (Marlene Robert) is captured and tortured by Cremer. The detective's wife (Brigitte Fossey) is, in turn, taken hostage by the criminals and threatened with whatever fate is visited on the cop's captive...
...children to gay Paree, and its steeplechase is a fairly pleasant mixture of the classic slapstick hide-and-go-seek elements of old-time Keystone comedies. The hiders, on the lam from teachers and texts, are two kids, ably though often too cutely played by Bobby Clark and Brigitte Fossey. (Pipes Bobby: "I don't think it's good for parents to be left alone too much!") The seekers are Bobby's widowed father (ProducerDirector Gene Kelly), a Paris-based U.S. businessman who sneers at the French as inefficient foreigners, and Brigitte's divorced mamma (Barbara...
...scheme seriously and tenderly, with a religious sense of dedication. Throughout, there is a subtle blending of a primitively religious motif with the workings of a subconscious death-wish on two ingenuous and sensitive minds, all to considerable dramatic effect. The two children chosen to play the leads--Brigitta Fossey and Georges Poujouly--are in every way equal to the demands of their roles...
...macabre humor. The direction of René Clément, who adapted the story from François Boyer's 1950 novel Jeux Interdits, is as exact as a machine; it also has a brooding, dreamlike quality. Making their debuts as the two juvenile leads, blonde, fragile Brigitte Fossey and sturdy little Georges Poujouly are small, haunting figures, moving through a strange, sardonic tale of death that cries out at the same time with a fierce love of life...
Forbidden Games (Robert Dorfman; Times Film Corp.) is a small French masterpiece that looks at a grownup's world of war through the uncompromising eyes of a child. Five-year-old Paulette (Brigitte Fossey) sees her mother & father machine-gunned to death among the pushbikes of a French refugee column in 1940. Dazed and uncomprehending, she wanders off the highway clutching her dead puppy, and is taken in by a family of French farmers. Here, surrounded by the brutality of war and the brutishness of the peasants, she turns for friendship to the family's eleven-year...