Photo of Nicolas Becker
Photo of Nicolas Becker

Nicolas Becker

“I don’t have a particular sound design philosophy but I think each film should be taken as a prototype, fitting the entire sound process to each film.”

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    COW

    ANDREA ARNOLD United Kingdom, 2021

    An astonishingly singular feat of sensorial cinema, Andrea Arnold’s first foray into nonfiction filmmaking finds yet another indelible heroine in Luma, a dairy cow. Resounding with transformative empathy for the inner lives of animals, this powerful documentary wears its loving heart on its sleeve.

    DE HUMANI CORPORIS FABRICA

    VERENA PARAVEL, LUCIEN CASTAING-TAYLOR France, 2022

    Plunging into the viscera of human bodies, the directorial duo behind Leviathan open up glistening worlds of ecstatic abstraction. Never shrinking from grit or guts, this fascinating documentary surfaces in underfunded Parisian hospitals, where doctors inject a good dose of humor into disrepair.

    EARWIG

    LUCILE HADŽIHALILOVIĆ United Kingdom, 2021

    Strange objects, secret prisons, and uncanny stories of children growing up continue to fascinate Lucile Hadžihalilović in the eerie and mysterious Earwig. Spine-tingling in both its beauty and its creepiness, her cinema of curiosities shares a surrealist realm with Cronenberg and Lynch.

    À TOUT DE SUITE

    BENOÎT JACQUOT France, 2004

    The third of a very fruitful on-going collaboration between French director Benoît Jacquot and young actress (and great director in her own right) Isild Le Besco, this gorgeous black and white paean to a post-New Wave era is an excited and poetic exploration of a youthful, searching free spirit.

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