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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Like Forbidden Games, it filters a violent national trauma through a small child’s imaginative rituals, with spare dialogue, rural stillness, and an unforgettable sense of innocence seeking meaning.
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Why this pick
A war-scarred child moves through a dreamlike, ravaged landscape; its lyrical black-and-white imagery and mournful attention to lost innocence closely echo Clément’s poetic gravity.
03
Why this pick
Its child-centered view of a defeated, ruined world shares Forbidden Games’ unsentimental compassion and stark observation of how adult catastrophe enters children’s lives.
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Why this pick
This delicate wartime childhood drama finds tenderness, rivalry, and moral awakening in an enclosed school world, building its emotional force through restrained observation rather than melodrama.
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Why this pick
A child processes death and an oppressive adult world through private fantasies and solemn play, offering a similarly intimate, unsettling blend of innocence and grief.
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01 / THE STORY
It is June 1940, during the Battle of France. After five-year-old Paulette's parents and pet dog die in a German air attack on a column of refugees fleeing Paris, the traumatized child meets 10-year-old Michel Dollé, whose peasant family takes her in. She quickly becomes attached to Michel. The two attempt to cope with the death and destruction that surrounds them by secretly building a small cemetery among the ruins of an abandoned watermill.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Michel Dolle
Paulette
Francis Gouard
Berthe Dollé
Red Cross Nun
Madame Dollé
Monsieur Dolle
Georges Dolle
