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Montxo Armendariz (born as Juan Ramón Armendariz Barrios; January 27, 1949 in Olleta, Navarra, Spain),〔Torres, '' ''Diccionario Espasa Cine Español'' p. 83〕 is an awarded Spanish film director and screenwriter. His film ''Las cartas de Alou'' won at the San Sebastian Film Festival. His next film, ''Historias del Kronen'', was entered into the 1995 Cannes Film Festival.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Festival de Cannes: Stories from the Kronen )〕 ''Secretos del corazón'' won several Goya Award, Berlin Film Festival〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Berlinale: 1997 Prize Winners )〕 and received the Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Film. ==Early life and work== Born on January 27, 1949 in Olleta, Navarra.〔D’Lugo, ''Guide to the Cinema of Spain'', p. 120〕 He was the last hope for his parents, who had already lost three baby sons.〔Stone, ''Spanish Cinema'', p. 142〕 His father was a farmhand and blacksmith and Armendáriz spent his first year in rural Basque Country, a landscape that would reappear repeatedly in his filmography.〔Stone, ''Spanish Cinema'', p. 142〕 He was six years old when, in 1955, he moved with his parents to Pamplona in search of a better life.〔Stone, ''Spanish Cinema'', p. 142〕 At age eighteen, he discovered existentialism in the works of foreign authors. After completing his mandatory military service, he studied electronics, a subject he taught as university professor at the Instituto politecnico de Pamplona.〔de Santiago, Pablo. (Filmografia de Montxo Armendáriz: El Pasisaje de los Sentimientos. ) decine21.com, (September 29, 2010). Retrieved March 24, 2012.〕 Interested in filmmaking, he joined a film club, studied folklore, wrote and performed protest songs and bought a Super 8 camera to make his own short films. In 1975 he was arrested for protesting the killing of a Basque activist and faced trial on charges of conspiracy; this coincided with Franco's death and a subsequent amnesty was declared.〔Stone, ''Spanish Cinema'', p. 143〕 Eventually Armendáriz left his teaching profession behind to follow a career as film director.〔D’Lugo, ''Guide to the Cinema of Spain'', p. 121〕 He joined Euskal Zinegille Elkartea, a new association of Basque filmmakers and made a series of documentary shorts on Basque topics including: ''Barregwrien Dantza'' ''(Funny Dance)'' (1979) and ''Ikusmena'' ''(Landscape)'' (1980).〔D’Lugo, ''Guide to the Cinema of Spain'', p. 121〕 ''Ikusmena'' presents a ten-year-old girl winning a prize in a school painting competition in a narrative disruptive by flashbacks that reveal how her artistic creativity had already been stifled by censorship and social pressures. ''Ikusmena'' was a success at festivals, but it suffered the inevitability limited distribution of short films.〔Stone, ''Spanish Cinema'', p. 143〕 Armendáriz turned towards the more socially relevant documentary genre and made the eleventh episode in 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 hard life of charcoal burners. It was while making this project that the director met Tasio Ochoa, who inspired his first feature length film.〔Stone, ''Spanish Cinema'', p. 143〕 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「Montxo Armendáriz」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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