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It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

FORBIDDEN GAMES is a film that in a realistic and unsentimental way showing the horrors and suffering in the war. Children's perspective in relation to the war in this film is extremely disturbing and fascinating at the same time. The girl left orphaned in an air strike during the German invasion. The son of local farmer finds a lost girl. The story shows how he makes friends with some older boy and how the two of them created many bizarre rituals to deal with the concept of death around them.The brutality of the war can influence, but can not beat children's playfulness, love and friendship. The atmosphere in the film brings a very strong feeling. With a fantastic acting and realistic the picture is almost perfect. The excitement generated during the movie, is completely justified. This is a heartbreaking war drama that shows human weakness and ends in tragedy because it destroys the most precious - children's smile, unity, love and friendship.See innocence in the eyes of two protagonists as they dedicated "forbidden game" is incredibly touching. Their world is very small, but they have each other and that's good enough. The greatest value of this film is brilliant in the conflict between the child innocence, friendship and playfulness, black humor, pathetic roughness and misunderstanding of struggling farmers.Brigitte Fossey as Paulette is brilliant in the role of five years old girl. I can not describe in words my excitement. Heartbreaking simplicity and sincerity that only a child can have. Georges Poujouly as Michel Dollé was very sympathetic to his mischief and simply magnificent in opposition to his parents at the end of the film.This is a remarkable film.

Maybe a little bit of a spoiler topic, I'm not sure. Some critics propose the idea that the sweet girl is not merely a victim of loss, but a victim traumatized to the point of sadism. My understanding of the motivation for the burial rituals was a line spoken by the little girl suggesting that dead things needed to be buried, that they should not be left exposed to the elements. This barely articulated idea, obviously, is the result of seeing her parents killed and her carrying her dead dog. I saw no more to their "games" than burials. I did not see killings as a part of it. Is it an absolute certainty that the children kill anything more than a cockroach? I thought the owl killed the mice. Some critics don't mention any killings by the children. Others build arguments about sadism based on their observation that the kids not only buried the animals in more and more elaborate ritual, but killed some of them. I just don't recall seeing a killing.

Child psychology is fascinating in the way it employs fantasy and games to deny hard hitting reality and ultimately spawn happiness out of the blue; It's a futile and inconsequential past time to adults, but it's a reason for being to children. The film gets that, and not in the slightest tries to manipulate the children's vulnerabilities for an easy and fat emotional output - which, i imagine, would seem counter- intuitive to a Hollywood studio - instead, the film is told from the children's perspective, as Twan mentioned; my favorite scenes are those shared between Paulette and Michel, we get to observe their innocence and realness, and the film doesn't shy away from the gullibilities of their understanding of life and death, the music helps in that but never to oversell it.Another part of child psychology i find compelling is the philosophy of "i want it, then it should be mine". I'm still struggling to understand the moral incentives for such acts; children don't feel remorse unless if maybe punishment is in line, and they are certainly convinced that they have better use of whatever they've stolen. maybe they do it out of some burning need to experiment and to explore some feeling of control.Jeux interdits (Forbidden Games) is a powerful film because it is not compromising. The story of Paulette and Michel doesn't end well for them, and the film closes on a sad note, perhaps advancing the notion that life is ultimately defined by loss and hardships, finely accentuated in Michel's eventual disposal of the crosses.

I first saw this small movie in 1976 at the now long gone Inner Circle Theater in Washington DC, as part of a double feature with "The Grand Illusion." Despite the emotional drain of seeing these movies in one sitting, I thought "Forbidden Games" was one of the best I had ever seen. I rediscovered it in the Criterion Collection 34 years later, and still find it a wonderfully engaging movie. Personally, I have no problem with the ending, which I do not find at all confusing. The Criterion Collection DVD includes interviews with director Rene Clement from 1962, with child star Brigitte Fossey in 2000, and with the director and actress together in 1967. This DVD also includes the alternate opening and ending, which fortunately were not used, as they would have neutered the impact of the story.