Arantxa Aguirre


Arantxa Aguirre Carballeira, is a Spanish film director specialising in documentaries. She is also a scriptwriter. She was the daughter of noted Spanish film director Javier Aguirre.
Her best known film is perhaps Dancing Beethoven, which was nominated for the Goya Awards in 2017. It is about the creation of a ballet to the music of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. The choreography is by Maurice Béjart. Aguirre had made an earlier film about Béjart's legacy called El esfuerzo y el ánimo.
In 2018 she released El amor y el muerte. This film about the composer Enrique Granados takes its title from a piece in his Goyescas. It features noted performers of the music such as Rosa Torres-Pardo and Evgeny Kissin.

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