Vicente Aranda


  • Date of Birth: 09 November, 1926
  • Place of Birth: Barcelona, Spain
  • Biography: Vicente Aranda (born on 9 November 1926 in Barcelona), is a Spanish film director, screenwriter and producer.

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Television Espanola (TVE) is one of the first ports of call for Spanish producers and one of Europe's leading buyers of third-party titles. Last year, the public free-to-air broadcaster screened 98% of all Spanish films shown on local television. ... Full Article

Described in the press notes as a story of fate strummed by the hand of destiny, Vicente Arandas new version of Carmen ditches the operatic Bizet score and works directly from Prosper Mrimes 1847 novel. ... Full Article

Spanish Love Tale Torture A Review by John Nesbit 09/09/2002 If the supermarket variety of romance novels stirs your passion, Juana la Loca (in the U.S. also known as Mad Love , Madness of Joan , or Madness of Love... ... Full Article

Fire-breathing lesbians are an inescapable staple of exploitation cinema.One doesn't have to look long before encountering bazillions of womens prison movies, featuring goose-stepping female wardens, who pay extra SPECIAL attention to their inmates. ... Full Article

If Vicente Aranda's "Lovers" had been released in the mid-'50s, when it is set, it might have become one of those scandalous foreign films that our parents forbade us to see (and that we sneaked in to see anyway.) As ... Full Article

Shame on writer/director Vicente Aranda for making a florid biopic about mad queens, obsessive relationships, and rampant adultery so dull. He has a great story at hand (no, it's not about Siegfried and Roy), about an unstable monarch who has... ... Full Article

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