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Vicente Aranda Ezquerra (; 9 November 1926 – 26 May 2015) was a Spanish film director, screenwriter and producer.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://cultura.elpais.com/cultura/2015/05/26/actualidad/1432626641_110137.html )〕 Due to his refined and personal style, he was one of the most renowned Spanish filmmakers. He started as a founding member of the Barcelona School of Film and became known for bringing contemporary Spanish novels to life on the big screen. Aranda was also noted for exploring difficult social issues and variations on the theme of desire while using 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 seen in his most internationally successful film: ''Amantes'' (1990) ''(Lovers)''. ==Early life== Vicente Aranda Ezquerra was born in Barcelona on 9 November 1926.〔Vera, ''Vicente Aranda'', p. 13〕 He was the youngest son in a large and impoverished family who had emigrated from Aragón to Barcelona twenty years before he was born.〔Colmena, ''Vicente Aranda'', p. 14〕 He barely knew his father, an itinerant 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 than in Barcelona, the family moved early in the war to Peñalba, his mother's native village. The dire situation there, close to the front at Aragon, forced them to return to Barcelona in 1938.〔Stone, ''Spanish Cinema'', p. 115〕 After the war ended, Aranda spent a lot of time in the local movie theatre, much against the wishes of his mother, who took to smelling him on his return for traces of the disinfectant that was sprayed in cinemas of the time.〔Stone, ''Spanish Cinema'', p. 114〕 He never finished his formal studies. At age thirteen, he began to work in order to help support his family.〔 He had a number of different jobs in his home town, trying a multitude of trades before following his brother Palmiro to Venezuela in 1952.〔Stone, ''Spanish Cinema'', p. 1148〕 He emigrated for economical and political reasons.〔 In Venezuela, Aranda worked as a cargo technician for an American shipping business. Later he directed programs at NCR.〔Torres, '' ''Diccionario del cine Español'', p. 80〕 After seven years, he returned to Spain in 1959. Wealthy and married upon his return, he intended to become a novelist, but found that he lacked enough talent as a writer. He fell in with the cultural elite of Catalonia and was encouraged to try his hand at filmmaking. He was not allowed to enroll at the School of Cinema in Madrid because he had not graduated from high school.〔 In Barcelona and completely self-taught, Aranda found a way to direct his first feature film. Nearly 40 years old when he started directing, Aranda did not gain international success until his 60s. He had a long and prolific career, making 27 films in more than 40 years as a director.〔Colmena, ''Vicente Aranda'', p. 11〕 Vicente Aranda was married to Teresa Font, his second wife. She is thirty years his junior. She has been editor of his movies since the mid-1980s; they had two daughters together. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Vicente Aranda」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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