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Jose Luis Ibañez

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🎂 February 18, 1933📍 Orizaba, Veracruz, Mexico🕯️ August 4, 2020 · Age 87

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José Luis Ibáñez (18 February 1933 – 4 August 2020) was a Mexican film director and screenwriter whose screen work is closely associated with Mexico’s 1960s–1970s auteur and experimental currents. He made his film-directing debut with Las dos Elenas, a segment of the anthology feature Amor, amor, amor produced by Manuel Barbachano Ponce from a story by Carlos Fuentes, and presented through Mexico’s First Experimental Film Contest. In the early 1970s he directed the feature films Victoria, an adaptation of Henry James’s Washington Square, and Las cautivas, developed from another Fuentes story; after these films, he largely stepped away from cinema to concentrate on other artistic and academi…

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José Luis Ibáñez (18 February 1933 – 4 August 2020) was a Mexican film director and screenwriter whose screen work is closely associated with Mexico’s 1960s–1970s auteur and experimental currents. He made his film-directing debut with Las dos Elenas, a segment of the anthology feature Amor, amor, amor produced by Manuel Barbachano Ponce from a story by Carlos Fuentes, and presented through Mexico’s First Experimental Film Contest. In the early 1970s he directed the feature films Victoria, an adaptation of Henry James’s Washington Square, and Las cautivas, developed from another Fuentes story; after these films, he largely stepped away from cinema to concentrate on other artistic and academic work.

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