The films of
Jacques Becker
La Vie est à nous (1936)
Jacques Becker 		  Dernier atout (1942)
Jacques Becker 		  Goupi mains rouges (1943)
Jacques Becker 		 
     
Made in February and March of 1936 by a team of French Communist Party activists and sympathetic film technicians, La Vie est à nous is a bold and effective piece of party propaganda...  [More...]   Jacques Becker’s first film is a rather obvious attempt to emulate the American gangster movie / film noir genre. It is, for all that, an impressive début for the man who is most often credited for popularising...  [More...]   With its extraordinary combination of black comedy, thriller, romance and neo-realist flourishes, Goupi mains rouges is almost certainly Jacques Becker’s most unusual film...  [More...]  
Falbalas (1945)
Jacques Becker 		  Antoine et Antoinette (1947)
Jacques Becker 		  Rendez-vous de juillet (1949)
Jacques Becker 		 
     
This film is a magnificent sortie for director Jacques Becker into the world of high fashion, in Paris, the centre of the universe of haute couture...  [More...]   In this, one of his most highly rated films, Jacques Becker uses the plot of René Clair’s 1931 musical farce, Le Million, as a pretext for an intimate portrait of working class life in France...  [More...]   Rendez-vous de juillet is in many ways one of the most remarkable and unexpected French films of the 1940s. It certainly represents a clear break from the traditional style of film which that decade excelled in. With...  [More...]  
Casque d'or (1952)
Jacques Becker 		  Rue de l'estrapade (1953)
Jacques Becker 		  Ali Baba et les quarante voleurs (1954)
Jacques Becker 		 
     
Arguably Jacques Becker’s best and most famous film, Casque d’Or illustrates perhaps more than any of his films his unique conception of film-making. Becquer’s main preoccupation is to capture through...  [More...]   Whilst not in the same league as some of Jacques Becker’s better films (most notably Casque d’or, which was made immediately before this one)...  [More...]   It has to be said that this is not Jacques Becker’s best film. At worst, it is a pretty bland re-telling of a very familiar fairy tale, with lukewarm comedy...  [More...]  
Touchez pas au grisbi (1954)
Jacques Becker 		  Les Aventures d'Arsène Lupin (1957)
Jacques Becker 		  Montparnasse 19 (1958)
Jacques Becker 		 
     
Although not quite in the league of Jacques Becker’s best films, Touchez pas au grisbi occupies an important placing in French cinema history...  [More...]   A colourful and whimsical film, Les Aventures d’Arsène Lupin is Jacques Becker’s attempt to shed some light on the mystery of the great hero of French detective fiction from the pen of Maurice Leblanc...  [More...]   Cinematic biographies of famous artists are not a rare phenomenon, but few such films manage to evoke the acute sense of despair and injustice that Montparnasse 19 does...  [More...]  
Le Trou (1960)
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Le Trou, Jacques Becker’s last film, is undoubtedly the director’s best work and was hailed at the time (particularly by the New Wave directors such as François Truffaut) as a masterpiece...  [More...]      





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