Angelino Fons

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name = Angelino Fons


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birthname = Angelino Fons Fernández
birthdate = birth date and age|1936|031|6
location = Madrid, Spain
occupation = filmmaker
yearsactive = 1966 – 1991
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Angelino Fons Fernández (born on March 6 1936 in Madrid), is a Spanish film director and screenwriter.

Career

Angelino Fons was born on March 6 1936 in Madrid, just months before the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. He grew up in Murcia and Orihuela, where he moved with his family in 1940, there he studied at the Jesuit school of Santo Domingo in Orihuela, Alicante. He entered the University of Murcia to study Philosophy and Literature. Abandoning his studies at the University of Murcia, Fons returned to Madrid to be trained as a film director and entered the national film school (IIEC), graduating with a specialty in directing in 1960. D’Lugo, "Guide to the Cinema of Spain", p. 135 ] Closely associated with Carlos Saura during that director first decade as a professional filmmaker, Fons collaborated on a number of Saura’s scripts during the early 1960s, receiving screen credits for "La Caza (1966), "Peppermint Frappé" (1967) and Stress es tres tres" (1968), as well as Francisco Requeiros’ Amador (Lover) (1965). D’Lugo, "Guide to the Cinema of Spain", p. 135 ]

Fons made his own directorial debut in 1966 with" La Busca" ("The Search"), a modern day adaptation of a novel written by Pio Baroja, marked by a sense of critical realism reminiscent of Miguel Picazo’s La Tía Tula (Aunt Tula). D’Lugo, "Guide to the Cinema of Spain", p. 135 ] The Film was extremely well received and, as a result, Fons basked in critical adulation for a number of years as one of the most promising of the young filmmakers of the generation of New Spanish Cinema of the second half of the 1960s. "The Search" was followed two years later by the mediocre musical "Cantando a la Vida" (Singing to Life) (1968). D’Lugo, "Guide to the Cinema of Spain", p. 135 ]

In 1969, Fons began a collaboration with the producer, Emiliano Piedra, directing a weak adaptation of the Perez Galdós novel "Fortunata y Jacinta" (1969) with the producer’s wife Emma Penella, in the lead. D’Lugo, "Guide to the Cinema of Spain", p. 135 ] This was followed by "La Primera Entrega" (The First Delivery) (1971), with even less favorable critical results. Fons directed another Perez Galdós adaptation the following year, "Marianella" (1972), but it was becoming increasingly apparent to critics and audiences that the promise shown in his first film had largely dissipated. D’Lugo, "Guide to the Cinema of Spain", p. 135 ] Even a collaboration with Carmen Martí- Gaite, in an adaptation of one of her stories "Emilia... parada y fonda" (Emilia) (1976), scripted by the novelist herself, did little to alter the apparent downward course of Fon’s filmmaking career. D’Lugo, "Guide to the Cinema of Spain", p. 135 ] By the early 1980s, Fons was directing cheap comic sexploitation films such as "The Cid cabreador" (The Vexing Cid) (1983). D’Lugo, "Guide to the Cinema of Spain", p. 135 ] He retired as film director in the 1980s.

Filmography

*"La busca" (1966)
*"Cantando a la vida" (1968)
*"Fortunata y Jacinta" (1970)
*"La primera entrega" (1971)
*"Marianela" (1972)
*"Mi hijo no es lo que parece" (1973)
*"Separación matrimonial" (1973)
*"La casa" (1974)
*"" (1975)
*"Emilia... parada y fonda" (1976)
*"Esposa y amante" (1977)
*"Mar brava" (1982)
*"El Cid cabreador" (1983)
*"La huella del crimen" 1: episode "El crimen de la calle Fuencarral" (1985) (Television)

Notes

Bibliography:

*D’Lugo, Marvin: " Guide to the Cinema of Spain", Greenwood Press, 1997. ISBN 0313294747

External links

* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0284638/ Angelino Fons] at Internet Movie Database
* [http://www.angelinofons.com/ Web Oficial de Angelino Fons]