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“Becks,” which took the U.S. Fiction Jury prize, was a well-wrought choice in every way. Tony Award-winner Lena Hall is just perfect in the title character’s many imperfect ways, as a heartbroken lesbian singer-songwriter forced to retreat from the coasts to her religious mom’s (Christine Lahti) suburban St. Louis home for awhile. Becks drinks too much, writes and sings terrifically, says terrible things to those closest to her, has a winning sense of humor and also an extremely hot, ill-advised affair with Mena Suvari’s bored local housewife. Hall does a marvelous job of keeping Becks self-laceratingly smart and sympathetic, except when she shouldn’t be, through most of Daniel Powell and Elizabeth Rohrbaugh’s movie, which they shot just a little better than your average indie dramedy (and which kind of makes a good deal of difference).
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