Review of Forbidden games (2015) by Kenneth S — 22 Apr 2010

Rene Clement's FORBIDDEN GAMES is one of those facts of life that can make your head hurt if you think about it too much. Kind of like contemplating the end of eternity, you know? This film has so many different messages that can be pulled out of it that one's mind can be overloaded with contemplation.

That's not necessarily a bad thing, though. That just shows how brilliant this film is. The key is to just go with the story as its being presented. Do not try to pull any sort of meanings or messages from it.

Just go with it. It's during the Nazi occupation of France in World War II, and a young girl's parents are killed while trying to escape Paris. Her dog is fatally wounded as well, and it's this dead animal that sets the dark heart of the film into motion.

She meets up with a young boy, whose family takes her in, and it's with this young boy that she learns the facts of death and how to bury the dead. Kids obsessed with death. My kind of movie!