Die Aranda, eroticism persists – The Universal

 MADRID The Spanish director Vicente Aranda, who died in Madrid at age 88, he developed a long career in which he directed films such as Lovers, The Lute, walks or bursts, Turkish passion, Intruder or Juana la loca.
 

 

 Fetish director of Spanish actresses Ana Belen, Victoria Abril and Paz Vega, born in Barcelona on November 9, 1926, received the National Film Award 1988 and their films, many of them highly erotic, have received several Goya Awards, the most important of the Spanish cinema. Including those obtained by lovers they highlighted in 1991, for Best Director and Best Picture.
 

 

 “You get old and lose strength, but not the desire,” said Vicente Aranda once. And he showed it to the end, for desire, like sex, was trademark for this Spanish filmmaker.
 

 

 During its four-decade career, making movies was for him “the most natural and effective way to convey thought,” he wrote yesterday Film Academy. He was a prolific author of films in which he elaborated on the bitter side of love relationships, moving without any qualms issues such as dependency or cruelty, but sex as liberation.
 

 

 From its beginnings with bright future and Fata Morgana, Aranda became one of the leaders of the School of Barcelona, ​​which in the 60s gave new life renewing the Spanish cinema of the time.
 

 

 Aranda became the discoverer of a handful of actresses. Of these, probably the name most associated with the filmmaker is Victoria Abril. A professional takeoff contributed with titles like sex change, in which she portrayed a transgender adolescent or girl panties gold, which adapted the novel by Juan Marse.
 

 

 But undoubtedly his greatest success reaped with Lovers (1991), the story of a love triangle crowned in April with the Silver Bear at the Berlinale and consecrated a young Maribel Verdu and Jorge Sanz.
 

 

 They continued films like The Bilingual Lover, a new adaptation of Marse for which he hired Ornella Muti, or the Turkish passion, in which Ana Belen gave birth to the Desi wretched novel by Antonio Gala. Literature has always been a source of inspiration for this filmmaker who never gave eroticism, as in his version of Carmen (2003), in which Paz Vega back to Leonardo Sbaraglia crazy.
 

 

 “Endearing Spitfires leaving us unforgettable films and cinematic moments, goodbye friend,” he tweeted Eduardo Noriega, who worked under de Aranda in Love Songs in Lolita’s Club. “Radical, extreme, uncompromising,” said for his part the filmmaker Álex of the Church to learn of the death of Aranda. DPA and EFE