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Étienne Becker

Born May 1, 1936 · Paris, France

Died December 11, 1995 · aged 59

Son of French director Jacques Becker and brother of French director Jean Becker.

Known For

One Deadly Summer · 1983

One Deadly Summer

★ 7.01983

MovieMysteryDrama

Shortly after Elle Wieck moves to a small French village, she begins dating Pin-Pon, a quiet young mechanic who has grown obsessed with the beautiful newcomer. But Elle has her own reason for the relationship...

In Montauban in 1944, Julien Dandieu is a surgeon in the local hospital. Frightened by the German army entering Montauban, he asks his friend Francois to drive his wife and his daughter in the back country village where Julien has an old castle. One week later, Julien decides to meet them for the week end, but the Germans are already occupying the village.

A troubled marriage is tested by the couple's involvement in a theatrical production of Racine’s Andromaque.

When Francois, a journalist, tours a big store for an article, he is chosen by the son of the newspaper's owner, Rambal-Cochet, as his new toy. Needing money and unwilling to quit his job, Francois agrees to this ridiculous assignment. Gradually befriending the spoiled boy, he induces him to play at making a newspaper, unveiling publicly the tyrannical way of life of the father. The powerful emotional climax we experience with the child astonishes both men.

After several inhabitants of a new city were bitten by dogs, a young doctor tries to put a stop to the climb of violence.

Two college friends, traveling in Europe, find themselves rivals for the attentions of a mysterious woman.

The Fire Within · 1963

The Fire Within

★ 7.61963

MovieDrama

Depressed Alain Leroy leaves the clinic where he was detoxified. He meets friends, acquaintances and women, trying to find a reason to continue living.

Don't Touch the White Woman! · 1974

Don't Touch the White Woman!

★ 5.51974

MovieComedyWestern

A highly stylized surreal farce about the events leading up to Custer's Last Stand anachronistically reenacted in an urban renewal area in modern Paris.

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One Deadly Summer · 1983

One Deadly Summer

★ 7.01983

MovieMysteryDrama

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A troubled marriage is tested by the couple's involvement in a theatrical production of Racine’s Andromaque.

Director of Photography

Director of Photography

After several inhabitants of a new city were bitten by dogs, a young doctor tries to put a stop to the climb of violence.

Director of Photography

Two college friends, traveling in Europe, find themselves rivals for the attentions of a mysterious woman.

Director of Photography

The Fire Within · 1963

The Fire Within

★ 7.61963

MovieDrama

Depressed Alain Leroy leaves the clinic where he was detoxified. He meets friends, acquaintances and women, trying to find a reason to continue living.

Camera Operator

Don't Touch the White Woman! · 1974

Don't Touch the White Woman!

★ 5.51974

MovieComedyWestern

A highly stylized surreal farce about the events leading up to Custer's Last Stand anachronistically reenacted in an urban renewal area in modern Paris.

Director of Photography

A man confronts his past during an experiment that attempts to find a solution to the problems of a post-apocalyptic world caused by a world war.

Marie has had a tough childhood ever since her mother Elisa committed suicide. She has spent most of her life in an orphanage and now makes a living as a small time criminal in Paris. Now she wants to unravel her past and find her father whom she blames for her mother's death.

Director of Photography

Last Known Address · 1970

Last Known Address

★ 7.31970

MovieThrillerCrime

Marceau Léonetti, a competent and energetic officer stops by chance the son of an influential lawyer driving under the influence of alcohol. A few months later, the lawyer falsely accuses Léonetti as being violent and incompetent. As a result Marceau is transferred to a small police station, where he meets young and beautiful Jeanne. Soon they are faced with a tough investigation.

Director of Photography

Police Python 357 · 1976

Police Python 357

★ 6.71976

MovieCrimeThriller

A methodical police inspector becomes entangled in a web of deceit after a murder investigation reveals disturbing connections to his own department. As suspicion tightens around him, he must outwit both the killer and the system to survive.

Director of Photography

A Friend of Vincent · 1983

A Friend of Vincent

★ 6.21983

MovieComedyDrama

Vincent is the victim of an assassination attempt carried out by a young woman who wants to avenge her sister. Albert, the childhood friend of Vincent, wants to help and begins to investigate the woman, but he realizes that Vincent is perhaps not the person he seems to be.

Director of Photography

A stranger enters into and forever alters the life of a couple. He claims to be pursued by certain authorities who intend to prevent him from disclosing a secret that only he holds, whence the title. Is he lying, or insane - or is he telling the truth? Who, if anyone, is after him? And what *is* - the secret?

Director of Photography

Semi-autobiographical story of Conrad Rooks, who travels to France to undergo a drug-withdrawal cure. Flashbacks to the beginings of psychedelia in San Fran. Though initially confusing, as Rooks blends drug-illusion with reality, and cuts color with black-and-white and monochrome tinted shots, "Chappaqua" is conventionally constructed with a beginning, middle, and end.

Camera Operator

Six vignettes set in different sections of Paris, by six directors. St. Germain des Pres (Douchet), Gare du Nord (Rouch), Rue St. Denis (Pollet), and Montparnasse et Levallois (Godard) are stories of love, flirtation and prostitution; Place d'Etoile (Rohmer) concerns a haberdasher and his umbrella; and La Muette (Chabrol), a bourgeois family and earplugs.

Director of Photography

When he was cutting "Phantom India," Louis Malle found that the footage shot in Calcutta was so diverse, intense, and unforgettable that it deserved its own film. The result, released theatrically, is at times shocking—a chaotic portrait of a city engulfed in social and political turmoil.

Director of Photography

Take It from the Top · 1978

Take It from the Top

★ 5.51978

MovieComedy

Tired of being a housewife, Annie wants to work. Between her professional life and her responsibilities as a parent, she can no longer cope. She decides to leave and starts writing a memoir of her life...

Director of Photography

Strange Affair · 1981

Strange Affair

★ 6.31981

MovieDrama

A young Parisian advertising executive becomes so captivated by the unsettling charm of his mysterious new employer that he eventually abandons his family and friends, viewing it a privilege to let the ubiquitous employer take over his home, his life, his desire. Only his wife remains suspicious, recognizing both the pathos and the evil in the man’s soul-stealing power.

Director of Photography

The Boat on the Grass · 1971

The Boat on the Grass

★ 5.11971

MovieComedyDrama

Despite their social differences, poor David and the rich Olivier are the best friends. David took the young Eleanor in Olivier's Paris apartment. When Olivier meets her there, he takes her to the country, where the three build a boat on the meadow. Eleanore divided the friends.

Director of Photography

In a busy, noisy neighborhood, a frustrated young wife in a failing marriage is offered her freedom by her indifferent husband, but has second thoughts after meeting an intriguing stranger.

Director of Photography

I Love You All · 1980

I Love You All

★ 6.01980

MovieDramaRomance

Alice invites her past two lovers and her current to Christmas dinner uniting them all in her house. In sentimental flashbacks she recalls the former times with each of them. While she reminisces, she also fixates on a new relationship that blooms and dies within the same calendar year leaving her to wonder if she's meant to be with anyone for any extended time.

Director of Photography

Sin with a Stranger · 1968

Sin with a Stranger

★ 5.51968

MovieDrama

François, a journalist, is approached on the train home by pretty a blonde. She leaves at the same station as him and follows him until he ends up inviting her to his house.

Director of Photography

The Lovely Month of May · 1963

The Lovely Month of May

★ 8.01963

MovieDocumentary

Candid interviews of ordinary people on the meaning of happiness, an often amorphous and inarticulable notion that evokes more basic and fundamentally egalitarian ideals of self-betterment, prosperity, tolerance, economic opportunity, and freedom.

Director of Photography

Louis Malle called his gorgeous and groundbreaking Phantom India the most personal film of his career. And this extraordinary journey to India, originally shown as a miniseries on European television, is infused with his sense of discovery, as well as occasional outrage, intrigue, and joy.

Director of Photography