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Jacques Becker. Highest Rated: 100% Grisbi (1954) Lowest Rated: 75% Antoine and Antoinette (1947) Birthday: Sep 15, 1906. Birthplace: Paris, France. Former assistant to Jean Renoir who began ...
1. Le trou (1960) “Le trou” is a 1960 French film directed by Jacques Becker. It is based on the novel “The Break” by José Giovanni and tells the story of five prisoners in a French prison who hatch a plan to escape. One of the key themes of the film is the idea of camaraderie and the bond that can form between people in difficult ...
JACQUES BECKER Festival Wednesday, August 1 – Thursday, August 16 Assistant to Jean Renoir during his greatest years, Jacques Becker (1906-1960) perhaps outdid his mentor in versatility, from his Parisian “youth trilogy” (Antoine and Antoinette, Rendezvous in July, and Édouard and Caroline) to vintage French Noir and the toughest of prison films, effortlessly using long takes, bullet-quick cutting, exhilarating location shooting, slices of life, and inevitable melodrama – with a ...
Becker’s influence has been acknowledged by or traced in some of the major French directors working after his death, including Alain Resnais, Jacques Demy, Éric Rohmer, and Maurice Pialat. Bertrand Tavernier’s 2017 documentary, My Journey through French Cinema , constituted a significant homage to Becker.
Oct 15, 2001 · With recent retrospectives and video releases of several films, the United States is in the midst of a Jacques Becker revival. The rediscovery of Becker is an unusual opportunity because Becker was never discovered to start with. He’s tended to be more of a name than a presence in French film as seen from America—a name invoked with respect, but conjuring nothing very palpable. What reputation Becker has had is based largely on the affection the French New Wave had for him: François ...
Jacques Becker (French: [bɛkɛʁ]; 15 September 1906 – 21 February 1960) was a French film director and screenwriter. His films, made during the 1940s and 1950s, encompassed a wide variety of genres, and they were admired by some of the filmmakers who led the French New Wave movement.
Jean Renoir, Jacques Becker, Jacques Brunius, Henri Cartier-Bresson, André Swoboda, Pierre Unik, Maurice Lime, Jean-Paul Le Chanois France, 1936 The first militant left-wing film made in France, this lyrical cine-essay is a collective effort by some of the finest writers, directors, and cinematographers working in France in the thirties.
