Key
Collaborators: Marguerite
Renoir (Editor), Maurice Griffe (Screenwriter), Jean-Jacques Grunenwald (Composer), Gaston Modot (Character Player), Paul Barge (Leading
Character Player), Daniel Gelin (Leading
Player), Robert Le Febvre (Cinematographer), Pierre Montazel (Cinematographer), Jean Wiener (Composer),
Jean d'Eaubonne (Production Designer)
Highly
Recommended: Casque
d'or (1952), Touchez
pas au Grisbi (1953), Le Trou (1959)
Recommended: Antoine et Antoinette (1947), Rendez-vous de Juillet
(1949), Edouard et Caroline (1950)
"Becker
was adept at evoking the everyday lives of ordinary
people, alert to delicate emotional nuances, and endowed
with a strong sense of time, place and social milieu. If
his work is now underrated, that is perhaps because he
placed greater emphasis on characters and relationships
than on narrative complexity." - Geoff
Andrew (The Director's Vision, 1999)
"Becker
was interested in what the cinema could do just as he was
interested in what men and women do. Never searching for
the extraordinary, he would go to endless lengths to bring
out not some abstract rhythm in the lives of people (as René
Clair) did but the true style and rhythm of their
sensibilities." - Dudley
Andrew (International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers,
1991)
"Becker
was a humane, observant, and inventive director who seemed
willed into films by his apprenticeship with Jean
Renoir...He lacked the master's innate passion for
cinema, and he never properly discovered either a style or
a subject matter in which he could immerse himself." -
David
Thomson (The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, 2002)
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updated:
11/01/2008 01:31 AM.
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