Ricardo Becher
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Biography
Ricardo Becher (1930–2011) was an Argentine film director, screenwriter and journalist. He directed twelve films between 1955 and 2006. His 1969 film Coup de Grâce was entered into the 19th Berlin International Film Festival. He worked as Leopoldo Torre Nilsson's assistant director on four films. During the 1970s he made a living in advertising and publicity. Since 1990 he made a career as a filmmaking teacher and he has published two novels. In 2006 he screened his last feature film in the VI BAFICI (Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente) where a retrospective of his films was made. He is the founder of the N.E.D Neo expresionismo digital, a way of transforming the video footage (imagen mundo) by postproduction filters in the search of its essence.
Known For
Cora is a Mexican prostitute with typically inconsiderate johns. She is troubled by a hole in the ceiling. The hole triggers flashbacks regarding how she got to where she is; she hooked up with a gringo and got involved in digging a well. A horse thief given up for dead gives them a hand.
The Female: Seventy Times Seven
A documentary crew, busy filming a movie about lumpenaje in the city, contact with their cameras and record the activities of a marginal tribe led by Gauchito whom be named for Gil Gauchito devotee, whose stories we refer to projections of life episodes of the legendary Antonio Gil Nunez. By following the example of his hero, the face Gauchito to power but, unlike the popular saint, achieved avoid their tragic fate.
The Gauchito Gil, Inocent blood
During the day, a non-conformist young man and his friends try to make a living by doing odd jobs; at night, they sink at the Moderno Bar.
Coup de Grace
A group of young aristocrats lock themselves up, for fun, on a terrace in a wealthy building in Buenos Aires. Their parents try to get them out, but they threaten to jump down if any adults enter the terrace.
The Terrace
A group of young people organizes a music festival.
Venga a bailar el rock
A wave of anonymous attacks will capriciously unite the stories, leading them towards an inexorable end.
La entrega
A man and a woman fall in love in the streets of a nocturnal Buenos Aires.
Prisioneros de una noche
An industrialist's son becomes part of the communist party.
Detrás de la mentira
This short features an unnamed shoeshine boy who works near a carnival. He dreams he befriends a middle-class boy one evening and gets a chance to spend time inside the carnival gate.
The Friend
The romantic encounter and misunderstanding between an aristocratic model and an actor.
Racconto
A construction worker has some terrible thoughts on his break time.
Crimen
The filmmaker, writer and teacher-teacher Ricardo Becher likes extreme decisions, both in his life and in his work. Now, at 80 years of age, he begins a new book called “Recta Final”, about his geriatric experience. Lipgot portrays the present of the filmmaker, at the same time that he reviews his history, from his first shorts and the collaboration with Torre Nilsson, passing through the fundamental "Shot of Grace" (1969) - a film that defied its time and was censored -, leading to the new movement that Becher founded with his students: digital neo-expressionism
Ricardo Becher, the Final Stage
An avant-garde theater troupe works through a series of unrelated episodes on en empty sound stage.
The Players vs. Ángeles Caídos
Chronicle of a fragment of Ricardo Becher's farewell and permanence.