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Death Wish, Child’s Whim, Auteurist Will: Boyer and Clément’s Forbidden Games Replayed

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The kernel of what would eventually become the film of Forbidden Games (1952) was a somber and disquieting screenplay that its author, François Boyer, found impossible to sell.

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Cardullo, R.J. (2016). Death Wish, Child’s Whim, Auteurist Will: Boyer and Clément’s Forbidden Games Replayed. In: Teaching Sound Film. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-726-9_5

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