Vicente Aranda
Gender: Male
Born: 9th November 1926 (currently 83 years old)
Nationality: Spain
Movies: Amantes, Asesinato en el Comité Central, Blood Spattered Bride, Brillante Porvenir, Cambio de Sexo, Canciones de Amor en Lolita's club, Carmen, Celos, Clara es el Precio, El Amante Bilingüe, El Crimen del Capitán Sánchez, El Lute: camina o revienta, El Lute II: mañana seré libre, Fanny Pelopaja, Fata Morgana, If They Tell You I Fell, Intruso, La Mirada del Otro, La Muchacha de las Bragas de Oro, La Novia Ensangrentada, La Pasión Turca, Libertarias, Los Jinetes del Alba, Luna Caliente, Mad Love, The Exquisite Cadaver, Tiempo de silencio, Tirant lo Blanc, ¡Hay motivo!
Vicente Aranda (born on 9 November 1926 in Barcelona), is a Spanish film director, screenwriter and producer.
Due to his refined and personal style, he is one of the most renowned Spanish filmmakers. He started as a founded member of the Barcelona School of Film and became known for bringing contemporary Spanish novels to life on the big screen. Aranda is famous for exploring difficult social issues and variations on the theme of desire that employs the codes of melodrama.
Love as uncontrollable passion, eroticism and cruelty are constant themes in his filmography. The frank examination of sexuality is one of the trademarks of his work as can be seen in his most internationally successful film: Amantes (1990) (Lovers).
Vicente Aranda Ezguerra was born in Barcelona on 9 November 1926. He was the youngest son in a large and impoverished family who had emigrated from Aragón to Barcelona twenty years before he was born. He barely knew his father, a photographer, who died when the child was only seven years old. The Spanish Civil War, in which his family took the side of the losing Republicans, marked his childhood. Thinking that the war was going to be more bearable in a small town
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