Jacques Becker

The Profile

Jacques Becker (1906–1960) was a French film director known for a realist style and for films such as Le Trou (Il Buco) and Casco d'oro. Early in his career he worked with Jean Renoir.

Born 1906; died 1960. Worked as an assistant to Jean Renoir. Le Trou (Il Buco, 1960) is his final film and is widely cited for its realism and restrained style.

The available review praises Jacques Becker's Il Buco (Le Trou) as a masterful, dry, and deeply realistic prison-escape drama. The reviewer highlights long takes, sparse dialogue, the use of a real multi-escapee as actor, and compares it favorably to other escape films. Becker is presented as a disciple of Renoir and a major figure in mid-20th-century French cinema.