Word: fossey
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Dates: during 1952-1952
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...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...