Ingrid Hoeben Ⓥ 🇧🇪
A ★★★★½ review of Forbidden Games (1952)
René Clément delivered a deeply tragical and wonderfully beautiful masterpiece in 1952. Filmed in tense/contrasting black and white. “Forbidden Games” was the first feature by René Clément; his short film on the same story was seen by the director Jacques Tati, who told him it must become a feature. It came (as Tati did) from outside the French film establishment; its producer, Robert Dorfmann, had powerful enemies. Jeux Interdits did not come along quietly...: The film was initially turned down by Cannes, then accepted after a scandal. It was turned down by Venice because it had played at Cannes, but
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