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Vicente Aranda Ezguerra was born in Barcelona on 9 November 1926. [1] He was the youngest son in a large and impoverished family who had emigrated from Aragón to Barcelona twenty years before he was born. [1]The Spanish Civil War, in which his family took the side of the losing Republicans, marked his childhood.[1] Thinking that the war was going to be more bearable in a small town than in Barcelona the family moved early in the war to Peñalba, his mother's native village, but the dire situation there made them come back to Barcelona in 1938.[2]
After the war ended, Aranda spent a lot of time in the local movie theatre, much against the wishes of his parents, who took to smelling him on his return for traces of the disinfectant that was sprayed in cinemas of the time.[3] He never finished his studies. At age thirteen, he had to begin to work in order to help his family.[2] He had a number of different jobs in his home town, trying a multitude of trades before following his brother to Venezuela in 1952 [3]. He emigrated for economical and political reasons.[2] In Venezuela, Aranda worked as a cargo technician for an American shipping business and later became responsible for programs at an important electronic company. After seven years, he came back to Spain in 1959.
Wealthy and married upon his return, he had the initial desire to become a novelist, but found that he lacked enought talent as a writer. He fell in with the cultural elite of Catalonia and was encouraged to try his hand at filmaking, even after being denied acces to the School of Cinema in Madrid because he never graduated from high school[3]. In Barcelona and completely self-taught, Aranda found the way to direct his first feature film.
Aranda started directing films late in life, at almost forty and did not reach international success until his 60s, nevertheless, he has had a long and prolific career making twenty-fisx films in more than forty years as director.[4] Vicente Aranda is married to Teresa Font, his second wife, editor of his movies since the mid 1980s; they have two daughters.
Spanish filmmaker Vicente Aranda is best-known for bringing Juan Marse's novels to life on the big screen. His films are almost always politically charged with the aftereffects of Franco's regime and he is well-known for courageously exploring difficult social issues. He also doesn't balk in his frank examinations of sexuality as can be seen in his most internationally successful film Amantes (Lovers) (1990). A founding member of the Barcelona School, Aranda started out co-directing Brillante Porvenir (Brilliant Future) with Roman Gubern in 1964. The following year, Aranda soloed with Fata Morgana, a drama filled with metaphorical political commentary. His adaptations of Marse include Si te dicen que cai (If They Tell You I've Fallen) (1989). In 1996, Aranda paid epic tribute to the women who bravely sacrificed their lives during the Spanish Civil War with Libertarias. Like many of his films, it starred Victoria Abril.
