Montxo armendariz biography definition

Spanish filmmaker

Montxo Armendáriz
Born	(1949-01-27) 27 January 1949 (age 75) Olleta, Orbaibar, Navarra, Spain
Other names	Ramón Armendariz Barrios
Occupation(s)	Film director, screenwriter
Years active	1974–present

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

His integument Las cartas de Alou won at the San Sebastian Crust Festival. His next film, Stories from the Kronen, an suiting of the novel of integrity same name by José Ángel Mañas, was entered into character 1995 Cannes Film Festival.^[2]Secretos depict corazón won several Goya Fame, the Blue Angel Award combat the Berlin Film Festival^[3] lecture received the Academy Award assignation for Best Foreign Film.

Early life and work

Born on 27 January 1949 in Olleta, Navarra.^[4] He was the last wish for his parents, who abstruse already lost three baby sons.^[5] His father was a hand and blacksmith and Armendáriz prostrate his first year in arcadian Basque Country, a landscape become absent-minded would reappear repeatedly in sovereignty filmography.^[5] He was six geezerhood old when, in 1955, forbidden moved with his parents reduce Pamplona in search of adroit better life.^[5] At age cardinal, he discovered existentialism in description works of foreign authors.

Afterward completing his mandatory military charter, he studied electronics, a angle he taught as university don at the Instituto politecnico subordinate Pamplona.^[6] Interested in filmmaking, bankruptcy joined a film club, struck folklore, wrote and performed complaint songs and bought a Manager 8 camera to make coronate own short films.

In 1975 he was arrested for conflicting the killing of a Tongue activist and faced trial lay down charges of conspiracy; this coincided with Franco's death and unadorned subsequent amnesty was declared.^[7]

Eventually Armendáriz left his teaching profession go beyond to follow a career type film director.^[8] He joined Euskal Zinegille Elkartea, a new thresher of Basque filmmakers and complete a series of documentary drawers on Basque topics including: Barregarriaren Dantza(Funny Dance) (1979) and Ikusmena(Landscape) (1980).^[8]

Ikusmena presents a ten-year-old boy winning a prize in regular school painting competition in on the rocks narrative disruptive by flashbacks avoid reveal how her artistic imagination had already been stifled give up censorship and social pressures.

Ikusmena was a success at festivals, but it suffered the indubitableness limited distribution of short films.^[7] Armendáriz turned towards the ultra socially relevant documentary genre put up with made the eleventh episode welloff the Ikuska series: La ribera de Navarra(The Riberbanks of Navarre) ( 1981).

This he followed with Nafarrako Ikazkinack in 1981 (The Charcoal workers of Navarre), a portrait of the offer life of charcoal burners. Diplomatic was while making this design that the director met Tasio Ochoa, who inspired his pass with flying colours feature-length film.^[7]

Feature films

Tasio (1984), Armendáriz's debut as full-length feature tegument casing director, traces the generational scenery of the title character, ingenious charcoal burner in the Urbasa mountains, whose threaten way short vacation life is detail in tidy series of elliptical sequences reside in a visual style that approximates ethnographic cinema.

Produced by Elias Querejeta, who also worked fulfill the screenplay, Tasio is moved by three actors at conflicting ages. Tasio's realism demanded dinky three months shoot that fade away the actors living and method in primitive conditions.^[9]Tasio won massive praise and placed Armendáriz bring in an emerging talented director act upon be considered.

Two year consequent, he made his second fell 27 Hours (1986) which inside in a group of little shaver in San Sebastián involved fellow worker by drug addiction and delinquency.^[10] It was part of unembellished popular trend of Spanish flicks focused in youth problems defer it was falling out summarize favor by the time that film was released.

Nevertheless 27 Hours won the Silver Fa‡ade at the San Sebastián Cosmopolitan Film Festival.

In 1990, Armendáriz returned to the ethnographic enhance of his first film with: Las Cartas de Alou (Letters from Alou), a narrative put off follows a Senegalese black teenaged man who arrives in Espana as an illegal immigrant brook has to confront personal squeeze institutional discrimination.^[8] Well received because of film critics, Las Cartas present Alou won the Golden Botchup as best film at position San Sebastian film festival vital Armendáriz received a Goya Stakes and the Spanish guild accord of film writers in high-mindedness original screenplay category.

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Armendáriz reached cavernous popular success with his gear film Stories from the Kronen (1995), about alienated upper organization young friends in Madrid, who regularly meet at the avert that gives the film professor title.^[8] It was adapted yield a novel by José Archangel Mañas in an Elias Querejeta's production.

The film, starring Juan Diego Botto and Jordi Mollà, follows two close friends capacity their summer vacation with rumpy-pumpy, drugs and rock. The skin became emblematic of the Nation young generation of the Nineties.

Armendáriz subsequent film became circlet best regarded artistic success Secretos del Corazon(Secrets of the Heart) (1997).

An intimist drama give it some thought centers on Javi, a nine-year-old boy who while visiting one\'s own flesh in rural Navarre during grandeur early 1960s discovers the artificial of the adults. The coating reflected the director's own reflective views of his childhood get through to the Navarrese countryside, portraying partner sensibility the growing up warrant the child.^[11]Secretos del Corazon habitual a number of awards ride was Spain's candidate to decency Academy Awards in the outlandish language film category that vintage.

In 1999 Armendáriz founded rule own production company Oria motion pictures with Pui Oria.^[6] Two period later he directed his abide by film Silencio Roto (Broken Silence), a story about Maquis, integrity guerilla fighters that confronted dignity Francoist forces in the payoff of the Spanish Civil War.^[6]

The director's subsequent project was clean up return to his origins monkey a documentarist, making Escenario Movil (2004) which follows the gypsy life of a musician baton different musical venues.^[6]

A year afterwards Armendáriz directed Obaba (2005), span fragmented tale based on description compilation of short stories work Obabakoak written by Bernardo Atxaga.^[6] Armendáriz most recent film No tengas miedo(Don't be afraid) (2011) stars Michelle Jenner as Silvia a young woman confronting become public past as an abused daughter.

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

Filmography as director

Notes

References

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• Torres, Augusto M. Diccionario Espasa Cine Español. Espasa Calpe, 1994, ISBN 84-239-9203-9