Forbidden Games
In celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the birth of one of France’s most versatile directors: René Clément, STUDIOCANAL are very pleased to announce that they will be releasing the following Clément titles on January 14th 2013: Forbidden Games, Gervaise, The Deadly Trap And And Hope To Die all UK DVD premieres.
Forbidden Games will screen at the French Film Festival in November, and will also be released on Blu-ray.
Described as the French Hitchcock, René Clément was one of France’s great post-World War II era directors. Studying as an architect originally, it was at the Ecole-des-Beaux-Arts that he developed an interest in filmmaking.
In 1936 he directed his first film - a short written by and starring Jacques Tati. Clément then spent most of the latter part of the 1930s making documentaries.
After the war he directed his first feature: La Bataille du rail (1945), about the French resistance, which was a critical and commercial success.
He twice won Oscars for Best Foreign Language Film - including Forbidden Games, along with many other awards throughout his career.
Forbidden Games
Brigitte Fossey, Georges Poujouly, Lucien Hubert, Laurence Badie, Jacques Marin, Suzanne Courtal, Denise Péronne, André Wasley, Amédée
A timeless evocation of childhood innocence corrupted, René Clément’s Forbidden Games tells the story of a young girl orphaned by war and the farm boy she joins in a fantastical world of macabre play.
At once mythical and heartbreakingly real, this unique film features astonishing performances by its child stars and was honoured with a special foreign language film Academy Award in 1952.
The film also won Best Film (in any language) at the BAFTAs and The Golden Lion in Venice.