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A rarity in today’s age, René Clément’s Forbidden Games premiered at the 1952 Cannes Film Festival and went on to screen later that year at the Venice Film Festival, where it picked up their top prize of Golden Lion. The French war drama, which captures World War II through the eyes of two children, has now been restored in 4K and will open at NYC’s Film Forum beginning May 9. Ahead of the Rialto Pictures release, we’re pleased to exclusively premiere the new trailer for the adaptation of François Boyer’s novel Les Jeux Interdits starring Brigitte Fossey, Georges Poujouly, and Lucien Hubert.

Here’s the synopsis: “A masterpiece of French post-war cinema by director René Clément, adapted by the legendary team of Jean Aurenche and Pierre Bost from Boyer’s successful novel, with a haunting hit score played by guitar virtuoso Narciso Yepes, the beautiful, hilarious and...

So, it's pretty obvious why this film suddenly has currency. It's a fascinatingly different take on the historical events dealt with in Christopher Nolan's current war epic (and also in Leslie Norman's more low-key 50s production). While it's possible to imagine people liking all three films, it seems likely everyone will greatly prefer one or other of them.Henri Verneuil enjoyed a long collaboration with Jean-Paul Belmondo, his star here, some of which exploited the star's fearless enthusiasm for daredevil stunts. Though the actor runs about among huge explosions here, so does everybody else, so that doesn't seem so special, though he does perform a spectacular crash down a flight of stairs. But on the whole, the film's talk seems to be to strip away Belmondo's superhero charisma and make him just one of the guys, hundreds of thousands of them, stranded on a beach and prey to bombs,...