Eloy de la Iglesia, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Spanish film director
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Place of Birth: Zarautz, Basque Country, Spain
About Eloy de la Iglesia
- Eloy de la Iglesia (January 1, 1944 – March 23, 2006) was a Spanish screenwriter and film director. De la Iglesia was an outspoken gay socialist filmmaker who is relatively unknown outside Spain despite a prolific and successful career in his native country.
- He is best remembered for having portrayed urban marginality and the world of drugs and juvenile delinquency in the early 1980s.
- Part of his work is closely related to the phenomenon popularly known in Spain as quinqui films, to which he contributed with several works.
- His film are an example of commitment to the immediate reality.
- They were made with honesty and great risk, against the conformist outlook of most movies of its time.
- Beyond their debatable aesthetic merits, his film served a document of the Spanish marginality of the late seventies and early eighties, and they have the stamp of his strong personality.
- Many of this films also deal with the theme of homosexuality.
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