Jeux interdits

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8,0/10

14 k

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Brigitte Fossey and Georges Poujouly in Jeux interdits (1952)

Liretrailer2 min 14 s

2 vidéos

25 photos

Drama War

Une jeune française devenue orpheline après un raid aérien nazi devient amie avec le fils d'un fermier pauvre. Ensemble, ils tentent d'accepter les réalités de la mort.Une jeune française devenue orpheline après un raid aérien nazi devient amie avec le fils d'un fermier pauvre. Ensemble, ils tentent d'accepter les réalités de la mort.Une jeune française devenue orpheline après un raid aérien nazi devient amie avec le fils d'un fermier pauvre. Ensemble, ils tentent d'accepter les réalités de la mort.

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ÉVALUATION IMDb

8,0/10

14 k

MA NOTE

Voir l’information sur la production à IMDbPro

Nommé pour 1 oscar
- 8 victoires et 2 nominations au total

Anecdotes
In a television interview ("Vivement Dimanche Prochain", France 2, 17 April 2005) Brigitte Fossey, who played the little Paulette, revealed that the film had originally been shot as a short, and then it was later decided to extend it into a feature film. Unfortunately she had lost her milk teeth and Georges Poujouly (who plays the boy Michel) had had his hair cut to play in Nous sommes tous des assassins (1952). So, in many scenes of the movie Paulette has false teeth and Michel is wearing a wig.

Gaffes
The poor parents are killed by a Focke-Wulf 190. This kind of plane didn't exist at the moment of the "battle of France" in May and June 1940.

Générique farfelu
There are two alternate opening credits:The main credit starts with a story book and a female hand opens the book to reveal the credits. The alternate still has the same book but this time we are introduced to the two main characters who are sitting by a lake. In this version, Michel's hand is turning the page and in between the scenes he tells Paulette that he's going to tell a story.

Connexions
Featured in Le ciné-club de Radio-Canada: Film présenté: Jeux interdits (1959)

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10/10

Better late than never...

I don't know why I never managed to see "Les Jeux interdits" until tonight, an August evening in 2003, more than a half-century after the film's release. I'd heard about it ever since I started studying French in college in 1958.

The amount of comedy in the film surprised and pleased me. I'd always had the impression the film was morbid and creepy. I didn't find it so; poignant, occasionally disturbing, even heart-wrenching, but not morbid at all. The acting by the two children playing Michel and Paulette is the most amazing pair of performances I've ever seen. I learned from postings here that the film was made under far less than optimal conditions, but the flaws that do show up in the film, chief among them the abrupt and unsatisfactory ending, are so negligible in contrast to the overwhelming emotional and acting values throughout, that I rated this film a ten, the first time I've reached for the highest number.

I cannot imagine anything finer than this film, whose images will probably haunt me for the rest of my life.