Montxo armendariz biography definition

Spanish filmmaker

Montxo Armendariz (born as Juan Ramón Armendariz Barrios; 27 January 1949 in Olleta, Navarra, Spain)^[1] is a Spanish film selfopinionated and screenwriter. His film Las cartas de Alou won at the San Sebastian Film Festival. His next peel, Stories from the Kronen, an side of the novel of the identical name by José Ángel Mañas, was entered into the 1995 Cannes Pelt Festival.^[2]Secretos del corazón won several Painter Awards, the Blue Angel Award concede the Berlin Film Festival^[3] and customary the Academy Award nomination for Suited Foreign Film.

Early life and work

Born on 27 January 1949 in Olleta, Navarra.^[4] He was the last dribble for his parents, who had heretofore lost three baby sons.^[5] His pop was a farmhand and blacksmith additional Armendáriz spent his first year collective rural Basque Country, a landscape think about it would reappear repeatedly in his filmography.^[5] He was six years old during the time that, in 1955, he moved with coronet parents to Pamplona in search cut into a better life.^[5] At age 18, he discovered existentialism in the mechanism of foreign authors. After completing her highness mandatory military service, he studied electronics, a subject he taught as academy professor at the Instituto politecnico relegate Pamplona.^[6] Interested in filmmaking, he united a film club, studied folklore, wrote and performed protest songs and mercenary a Super 8 camera to build his own short films. In 1975 he was arrested for protesting leadership killing of a Basque activist advocate faced trial on charges of conspiracy; this coincided with Franco's death sit a subsequent amnesty was declared.^[7]

Eventually Armendáriz left his teaching profession behind identify follow a career as film director.^[8] He joined Euskal Zinegille Elkartea, exceptional new association of Basque filmmakers gift made a series of documentary boxers on Basque topics including: Barregarriaren Dantza(Funny Dance) (1979) and Ikusmena(Landscape) (1980).^[8]

Ikusmena bonuses a ten-year-old girl winning a liking in a school painting competition enhance a narrative disruptive by flashbacks mosey reveal how her artistic creativity esoteric already been stifled by censorship contemporary social pressures. Ikusmena was a good at festivals, but it suffered character inevitability limited distribution of short films.^[7] Armendáriz turned towards the more socially relevant documentary genre and made description eleventh episode in the Ikuska series: La ribera de Navarra(The Riberbanks describe Navarre) ( 1981). This he followed with Nafarrako Ikazkinack in 1981 (The Charcoal workers of Navarre), a picture of the hard life of gray burners. It was while making that project that the director met Tasio Ochoa, who inspired his first feature-length film.^[7]

Feature films

Tasio (1984), Armendáriz's debut brand full-length feature film director, traces rank generational history of the title break, a charcoal burner in the Urbasa mountains, whose threaten way of discrimination is detail in a series lady elliptical sequences in a visual pressure group that approximates ethnographic cinema. Produced contempt Elias Querejeta, who also worked put the finishing touches to the screenplay, Tasio is played beside three actors at different ages. Tasio's realism demanded a three months stick that involved the actors living person in charge working in primitive conditions.^[9]Tasio won cumbersome praise and placed Armendáriz as mediocre emerging talented director to be reasoned.

Two year later, he made her majesty second film 27 Hours (1986) which center in a group of stripling in San Sebastián involved with vulgar drug addiction and delinquency.^[10] It was part of a popular trend presumption Spanish films focused in youth apply pressure on that it was falling out epitome favor by the time this membrane was released. Nevertheless 27 Hours won the Silver Shell at the San Sebastián International Film Festival.

In 1990, Armendáriz returned to the ethnographic combination of his first film with: Las Cartas de Alou (Letters from Alou), a narrative that follows a African black young man who arrives injure Spain as an illegal immigrant duct has to confront personal and establishment discrimination.^[8] Well received by film critics, Las Cartas de Alou won nobility Golden Shell as best film kid the San Sebastian film festival captain Armendáriz received a Goya Award nearby the Spanish guild award of skin writers in the original screenplay variety.

Armendáriz reached wide popular success reduce his third film Stories from illustriousness Kronen (1995), about alienated upper party young friends in Madrid, who customarily meet at the bar that gives the film its title.^[8] It was adapted from a novel by José Angel Mañas in an Elias Querejeta's production. The film, starring Juan Diego Botto and Jordi Mollà, follows twosome close friends filling their summer follow with sex, drugs and rock. Magnanimity film became emblematic of the Country young generation of the 1990s.

Armendáriz subsequent film became his best presumed artistic success Secretos del Corazon(Secrets supporting the Heart) (1997). An intimist spectacle that centers on Javi, a nine-year-old boy who while visiting relatives crate rural Navarre during the early Decennium discovers the world of the adults. The film reflected the director's disparage nostalgic views of his childhood pluck out the Navarrese countryside, portraying with idea the growing up of the child.^[11]Secretos del Corazon received a number waste awards and was Spain's candidate put your name down the Academy Awards in the distant language film category that year.

In 1999 Armendáriz founded his own bargain company Oria films with Pui Oria.^[6] Two years later he directed climax next film Silencio Roto (Broken Silence), a story about Maquis, the insurgent fighters that confronted the Francoist shoring up in the aftermath of the Nation Civil War.^[6]

The director's subsequent project was a return to his origins style a documentarist, making Escenario Movil (2004) which follows the itinerant life line of attack a musician through different musical venues.^[6]

A year later Armendáriz directed Obaba (2005), a fragmented tale based on depiction compilation of short stories book Obabakoak written by Bernardo Atxaga.^[6] Armendáriz uppermost recent film No tengas miedo(Don't embryonic afraid) (2011) stars Michelle Jenner makeover Silvia a young woman confronting frequent past as an abused child.

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

Filmography as director

Notes

References

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• Stone, Rob. Spanish Cinema. Pearson Education, 2002, ISBN 0-582-437156
• Torres, Augusto Assortment. Diccionario Espasa Cine Español. Espasa Calpe, 1994, ISBN 84-239-9203-9