Hailed on its release as the most troubling French film made in the aftermath of World War II, it returns for a week at Film Forum. By J. Hoberman René Clément’s “Forbidden Games” (1952) uses a 5-year ...

Forbidden Games, the 1952 French war drama by René Clément based on François Boyer's novel Les Jeux Interdits, will run in a new 4K restoration at Film Forum from Friday, May 9 to Thursday, May 15.

‘Forbidden Games’ won the Grand Prize at the Venice Film Festival and the jury selected 5-year-old Brigitte Fossey as best actress. Clément’s almost impossibly tender movie was also awarded an ...