Madrid. Spanish director Vicente Aranda, died today in Madrid at age 88, had a long career in which he directed films like “Lovers”, “The Lute, walks or bursts,” “Turkish Passion”, “Intruder” or “Juana The crazy “.
fetish Director 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 various, most important Spanish film Goya Awards.
Among them highlighted those obtained by “Lovers” in 1991 for best director and best film.
From a young held various jobs until, in 1949, emigrated to Venezuela where he worked for American companies.
He returned to Spain in 1956 and tried to enter the School of Cinema, but lacking educational qualifications required, could not be registered, which led to leave Madrid and take up residence in Barcelona.
In the Catalan capital began his career as a filmmaker and, after several attempts, made his directorial debut in 1964, with writer Roman Gubern, with the film “Bright Future”, which he also produced.
During the sixties helped Spain in several films, mostly as an assistant director, such as ” sixty happy “and” Death Wish “.
Although his first film had no notoriety,” Bright Future “(1965), despite join the call School of Barcelona, with his second film as director “Fata Mongana” (1966), was a huge critical success.
His are also titles like “Cruel” (1969), “The Blood Spattered Bride” (1972), “Clara is the price “(1974),” Sex Change “(1977),” The girl panties gold “(1979), adapted from the novel of the Spanish Juan Marse,” Murder in the Central Committee “(1982) and” Fanny Pelopaja “(1984).
” The Lute, walks or bursts, “a film about a famous criminal during the Franco dictatorship in Spain, was nominated as best director for the Goya Awards in 1988. this film and the whole of his work won the National Film Award.
In 1989 appeared in the Festival of Cinema of San Sebastián “If They Tell You I Fell” an adaptation of the work of Juan Marse.
In February 1991 released “Lovers” starring Jorge Sanz, Maribel Verdu and Victoria Abril, with whom he worked on twelve occasions and who was awarded the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the Festival Berlin. For this film Aranda won the Goya Award for Best Director and Best Film.
In 1992 he went to the Italian Ornella Muti and Spanish Javier Bardem in “The Bilingual Lover,” based on a novel by John Marse-who adapted four works-and where ironically with eroticism and Catalan nationalism.
It also led to film the novel by Antonio Gala “Turkish Passion” starring actress and singer Ana Bethlehem.
In 1996, the centenary of the birth of cinema, made together with directors of various countries the documentary “Lumiere and Company”. That same year he filmed the “Libertarian” set in the Spanish Civil War.
film with the film “The eyes of others” based on the novel of the Spanish Fernando G. Delgado, achieved a nomination Bear Gold at the Berlin Film Festival in 1999. That year he also released “Jealousy”.
In 2001 he released “Juana la Loca”, a film that tells the tumultuous love story of Queen Joanna I of Castile and Philip the Fair.
Its protagonist, Pilar Lopez de Ayala, won the Silver Shell Festival San Sebastian for Best Performance. He counted twelve nominations for the Goya awards, but in the end the film won only three.
In 2003 filmed “Carmen”, inspired by the work of Merimee, with the Spanish Paz Vega as the Sevillian cigarette and Argentine Leonardo Sbaraglia as Don Jose, the French soldier in love with Carmen. This time he won the Goya Award for Best Costume, of the seven categories in which it was nominated.
In 2004 he received the Tribute Award “every race in full swing” by the Assembly of Directors Film . of Spain
Other title of this prolific filmmaker are “Tight white” (2005); “Love Songs in Lolita’s Club” (2007), which marked his fourth film adaptation of a text by Juan Marse and “Luna Caliente” (2009), adapted from a Argentina novel about the Process of Burgos.
Among recent accolades he received in Spain include the Honor Award of his career Seville European Film Festival (2010), the Sant Jordi Prize (2011) and the Honorary Award of the International Film Festival of Gijon in recognition of “all his “artistic”.
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