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Jose Juan Bigas Luna
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19 March 1946 - 6 April 2013
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Bigas Luna (as he is mentioned in the credits, although it is his double surname, and his full name is Jose Juan Bigas Luna) was born on March 19, 1946 in Barcelona, Spain. He was an architect, a photographer. Before becoming a filmmaker, he gained fame as a designer and artist. His avant-garde examples of industrial design and furniture were widely known throughout the world, and a number of his works were exhibited at the Dalí Museum in Figueres. Some of his works were awarded the Silver Delta
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Bigas Luna (as he is mentioned in the credits, although it is his double surname, and his full name is Jose Juan Bigas Luna) was born on March 19, 1946 in Barcelona, Spain. He was an architect, a photographer. Before becoming a filmmaker, he gained fame as a designer and artist. His avant-garde examples of industrial design and furniture were widely known throughout the world, and a number of his works were exhibited at the Dalí Museum in Figueres. Some of his works were awarded the Silver Delta Awards. Having shot three short films, including “Peasant” (1973), Bigas Luna in 1976 put his full-length directorial debut “Tattoo”, filming the novel by Manuel Montalban. And although Luna's next works, Bilbao (1977) and Poodle (1978), were awarded international awards, they did not make the director's name widely recognizable. The career of Bigas Luna in the cinema experienced ups and downs, he tried his hand in the genre of detective, and in the genre of horror film, not departing far in his work from his favorite provocative and kitschy eroticism. Fame came to him with the release of the provocative and erotic melodrama Ham and Frogs (1992), which won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival. The next film, "Golden Eggs" (1993), won a prize at the film festival in San Sebastian, and in 1994 Bigas Luna was again celebrated in Venice, receiving an award for the script of the film "Titka and the Moon". The most romantic film critics call his "Maid from the Titanic" (1997), awarded three prizes of the Cairo Film Festival and two prizes of the Spanish Film Academy "Goya". In 1999, Bigas Luna staged a colorful detective thriller "Naked Macha", based on real events from the life of Goya and the Duchess of Alba. In 2001, the director again attracted attention with the new film Noise of the Sea.