Biography
Víctor Erice Aras (Spanish: [ˈbiɣtoɾ eˈɾiθe]; born 30 June 1940; Karrantza) is a Spanish film director. He is best known for his two feature fiction films, The Spirit of the Beehive (1973), which many regard as one of the greatest Spanish films ever made, and El Sur (1983).
Erice was born in Karrantza, Biscay. He studied law, political science, and economics at the University of Madrid. He also attended the Escuela Oficial de Cinematografia in 1963 to study film direction.
He wrote film criticism and reviews for the Spanish film journal Nuestro Cine, and made a series of short films before making his first feature film, The Spirit of the Beehive (1973), a critical portrait of 1940s rural Spain. Erice was among other filmmakers, such as Luis Buñuel, who lived in “such restricted societies as Franco’s Spain,” to take aim at the authoritarian rule in power. At the time his first film was released in 1973, Francisco Franco was still in power. One of the things The Spirit of the Beehive is known for is its use of symbolism to portray what life was like in Spain under Franco’s rule. Setting the movie in 1940, at the start of Franco’s rule, was a risk for Erice, given that the film “wasn't a propagandist effort in which stalwart Francoists won victories against evil, priest-massacring Republicans.” Ten years later, Erice wrote and directed El Sur (1983), based on a story from Adelaida García Morales, another highly regarded film, although the producer Elías Querejeta only allowed him to film the first two-thirds of the story. His third movie, The Quince Tree Sun (1992) is a documentary about painter Antonio López García. The film won the Jury Prize and the FIPRESCI Prize at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival. In July 2022, thirty years after his last full-length film, a project for a new Erice film (Cerrar los ojos) supported by Pecado Films, Tándem Films, Nautilus as well as Canal Sur was revealed to be in development. The film premiered in the following year at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival and was met with very positive reviews.
He was a member of the jury at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival in May. At the 2014 Locarno Film Festival, Erice was awarded with a Golden Leopard award for lifetime achievement.
Filmography
all 38
Movies 38
Director 23
self 6
Writer 2
Producer 1
Narrator 1
Close Your Eyes (2023)
Piedra y cielo (2019)
Wiara (2018)
Plegaria (2018)
Miguel Picazo. Un cineasta extramuros (2016)
Historic Centre (2012)
Broken Windows (2012)
3.11 A Sense of Home (2011)
Don't Expect Too Much (2011)
Ana, Three Minutes (2011)
Sodankylä Forever (2010)
Víctor Erice: Paris-Madrid allers-retours (2010)
Sea-Mail (2007)
Víctor Erice – Abbas Kiarostami: Correspondences (2007)
Nuevo / Otro Cine Español - Un Lugar En El Cine (2007)
La Morte Rouge (2006)
Arroyo de la luz (2005)
Versión Española: Victor Erice (2003)
Sketches (1990-2003) (2003)
Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet (2002)
Lifeline (2002)
Victor Erice in Madrid (2000)
The Footprints of a Spirit (1998)
Celebrate Cinema 101 (1996)
The Quince Tree Sun (1992)
El Sur (1983)
The Spirit of the Beehive (1973)
The Challenges (1969)
Antoñito vuelve a casa (1969)
Next Fall (1967)
Oscuros sueños de agosto (1967)
Los días perdidos (1963)
Between the Tracks (1962)
Pages From a Lost Diary (1962)
On the Terrace (1961)
Tarde de domingo (1960)
Memoria y sueño: Sierra de Teruel
Memoria y sueño: El desprecio
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Known ForDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday1940-06-30 (83 years old)
Birth PlaceKarrantza Harana / Valle de Carranza, Spain
CitizenshipsSpain
Also Known As빅토르 에리세, 빅토르 에리스, Виктор Эрисе
AwardsGold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts, FIPRESCI Prize of the Festival de Cannes, Golden Shell, Jury Prize
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