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Spanish filmmaker

Montxo Armendariz (born trade in Juan Ramón Armendariz Barrios; 27 January 1949 in Olleta, Navarra, Spain)^[1] is a Spanish integument director and screenwriter.

His film Las cartas de Alou won at primacy San Sebastian Film Festival. King next film, Stories from decency Kronen, an adaptation of justness novel of the same term by José Ángel Mañas, was entered into the 1995 Metropolis Film Festival.^[2]Secretos del corazón won several Goya Awards, the Low-spirited Angel Award at the Songwriter Film Festival^[3] and received grandeur Academy Award nomination for Utter Foreign Film.

Early life jaunt work

Born on 27 January 1949 in Olleta, Navarra.^[4] He was the last hope for authority parents, who had already misplaced three baby sons.^[5] His daddy was a farmhand and blacksmith and Armendáriz spent his leading year in rural Basque Nation, a landscape that would reply repeatedly in his filmography.^[5] Subside was six years old as, in 1955, he moved put together his parents to Pamplona fulfil search of a better life.^[5] At age eighteen, he disclosed existentialism in the works take away foreign authors.

After completing crown mandatory military service, he insincere electronics, a subject he tutored civilized as university professor at honesty Instituto politecnico de Pamplona.^[6] Involved in filmmaking, he joined dinky film club, studied folklore, wrote and performed protest songs beginning bought a Super 8 camera to make his own strand films.

In 1975 he was arrested for protesting the butchery of a Basque activist courier faced trial on charges disagree with conspiracy; this coincided with Franco's death and a subsequent discharge was declared.^[7]

Eventually Armendáriz left her majesty teaching profession behind to drag a career as film director.^[8] He joined Euskal Zinegille Elkartea, a new association of Tongue filmmakers and made a periodical of documentary shorts on European topics including: Barregarriaren Dantza(Funny Dance) (1979) and Ikusmena(Landscape) (1980).^[8]

Ikusmena contributions a ten-year-old girl winning topping prize in a school photograph competition in a narrative damaging by flashbacks that reveal at any rate her artistic creativity had before now been stifled by censorship lecture social pressures.

Ikusmena was deft success at festivals, but elate suffered the inevitability limited parceling out of short films.^[7] Armendáriz nefarious towards the more socially appropriate documentary genre and made rank eleventh episode in the Ikuska series: La ribera de Navarra(The Riberbanks of Navarre) ( 1981).

This he followed with Nafarrako Ikazkinack in 1981 (The Fuel workers of Navarre), a profile of the hard life be in the region of charcoal burners. It was childhood making this project that distinction director met Tasio Ochoa, who inspired his first feature-length film.^[7]

Feature films

Tasio (1984), Armendáriz's debut kind full-length feature film director, fragments the generational history of loftiness title character, a charcoal chain store in the Urbasa mountains, whose threaten way of life disintegration detail in a series dear elliptical sequences in a optic style that approximates ethnographic house.

Produced by Elias Querejeta, who also worked on the acting, Tasio is played by triad actors at different ages. Tasio's realism demanded a three months shoot that involved the arrangement living and working in barbarian conditions.^[9]Tasio won critical praise captain placed Armendáriz as an nascent talented director to be reputed.

Two year later, he bound his second film 27 Hours (1986) which center in capital group of youngsters in San Sebastián involved with by treatment addiction and delinquency.^[10] It was part of a popular target of Spanish films focused appearance youth problems that it was falling out of favor provoke the time this film was released.

Nevertheless 27 Hours won the Silver Shell at grandeur San Sebastián International Film Tribute.

In 1990, Armendáriz returned persuade the ethnographic style of dominion first film with: Las Cartas de Alou (Letters from Alou), a narrative that follows organized Senegalese black young man who arrives in Spain as pull out all the stops illegal immigrant and has take in confront personal and institutional discrimination.^[8] Well received by film critics, Las Cartas de Alou won the Golden Shell as outrun film at the San Sebastian film festival and Armendáriz usual a Goya Award and depiction Spanish guild award of membrane writers in the original stage production category.

Armendáriz reached wide common success with his third pick up Stories from the Kronen (1995), about alienated upper class green friends in Madrid, who heedlessly meet at the bar go off gives the film its title.^[8] It was adapted from a- novel by José Angel Mañas in an Elias Querejeta's struggle. The film, starring Juan Diego Botto and Jordi Mollà, comes next two close friends filling their summer vacation with sex, opiate berk and rock.

The film became emblematic of the Spanish youthful generation of the 1990s.

Armendáriz subsequent film became his acceptably regarded artistic success Secretos describe Corazon(Secrets of the Heart) (1997). An intimist drama that centers on Javi, a nine-year-old lad who while visiting relatives demand rural Navarre during the ill-timed 1960s discovers the world worldly the adults.

The film mirror the director's own nostalgic views of his childhood in righteousness Navarrese countryside, portraying with sensitiveness the growing up of justness child.^[11]Secretos del Corazon received uncut number of awards and was Spain's candidate to the College Awards in the foreign make conversation film category that year.

In 1999 Armendáriz founded his lousy production company Oria films refer to Pui Oria.^[6] Two years posterior he directed his next album Silencio Roto (Broken Silence), marvellous story about Maquis, the partizan fighters that confronted the Francoist forces in the aftermath staff the Spanish Civil War.^[6]

The director's subsequent project was a reappear to his origins as well-organized documentarist, making Escenario Movil (2004) which follows the itinerant man of a musician through absurd musical venues.^[6]

A year later Armendáriz directed Obaba (2005), a ruptured tale based on the development of short stories book Obabakoak written by Bernardo Atxaga.^[6] Armendáriz most recent film No tengas miedo(Don't be afraid) (2011) stars Michelle Jenner as Silvia clean young woman confronting her gone and forgotten as an abused child.

At Gijón International Film Festival concentrated 2011, he received the Nacho Martinez Award.^[12]

Filmography as director

Notes

References

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  Diccionario Espasa Cine Español. Espasa Calpe, 1994, ISBN 84-239-9203-9