Sex and Lucia

R

Released Jul 12, 2002

2 hr. 5 min.

Drama

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71%

70 Reviews

Tomatometer

85%

10,000+ Ratings

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After learning that her boyfriend, Lorenzo (Tristán Ulloa), a talented but troubled writer, may have committed suicide, the beautiful Lucía (Paz Vega) decides to escape to a remote Spanish island. When she arrives, she meets Carlos (Daniel Freire), a scuba diver, and Elena (Najwa Nimri), Lorenzo's former lover. As the twisted story unfolds, Lucía learns more about Lorenzo's tragic past, which may have been the inspiration for his latest novel -- and the root of his depression.

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Critics Consensus

Beneath the gratuitous nudity lies a complex and visually striking movie.

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dave s

After the apparent suicide of her boyfriend, Lucia (Paz Vega) escapes to a desolate Spanish island where she attempts to put the pieces of her broken life back together. Sex and Lucia is an often beautiful and sometimes confounding film about loss, love, the horror of mental illness, and recovery, filled with symbolism, brutal coincidence, and plenty of insight into the creative process. Granted, the movie does feel muddled and more than a little confusing at times and many shots are horribly overexposed, perhaps intentionally, but the film is surprisingly life-affirming for those who stick it out until the end… and is surprisingly sexy when considering the subject matter.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

03/30/23

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There are some gorgeous women in this movie. Paz Vega has such a lovely face and amazing figure she had me recalling Maribel Verdu in "Y Tu Mama Tambien". That was a very sexy movie, and a better one than "Sex and Lucia". Overly complicated. ambiguous, vague, and frustrating, I found myself too often perplexed and even bored at times by a movie with this much lovely flesh and sex. I've read that the director talked of writing a screenplay, then a novel, then the novel into the screenplay...He seemed to want to simply engage us more than anything, freeing the characters with an absurd sense of plot to absorb our attention. The scenes/parts work well enough individually, rather like chapters in that novel. But it comes off as, well, rather novel in the other sense of that word. The film seems to turn itself inside out and start again. Still, there is some good acting from Vega and a couple of others to go with the absurdity and the blatant nudity. 2.9 stars

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/20/23

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Audience Member

The aesthetic and the sex are the main characters of the movie, embodied (though not entirely) by the main character, and it is through her and other characters that we understand that in the end sex is more complex than the act itself, and that sex through its absence but also its presence can lead to isolation, literally in this case, and that maybe being alone can be okay too if you know how to do it.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/12/23

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s r

I finally got around to watching this one. It was artsy and seemed to embody the directors' fantasies. It also made me want to visit some of those places in Spain.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

01/29/23

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Sex and Lucia is one of the hottest erotic movies of all time.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

01/26/23

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Julio Medem

Director

Paz Vega

Lucía

Tristán Ulloa

Lorenzo

Najwa Nimri

Elena

Daniel Freire

Carlos

Elena Anaya

Belén

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Rated: 3/5

Dec 30, 2006

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Nick Schager

Slant Magazine

As a randy film about sexy people in gorgeous places being pushed and pulled (literally and figuratively) by desire ... [Sex and Luca] makes for an arousing good time.

Rated: 2.5/4

Mar 19, 2003

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Kimberley Jones

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Rated: 3/5

Mar 10, 2003

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Patrick Nabarro

A Freudian, subconscious essay on sex, dreams and the creative process.

Rated: 4/5

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Peter Canavese

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A bizarre, alternately joyful and gloomy take on sexual fantasies and complications. [Blu-ray]

Rated: 3/4

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Rated: 5/5

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Synopsis

After learning that her boyfriend, Lorenzo (Tristán Ulloa), a talented but troubled writer, may have committed suicide, the beautiful Lucía (Paz Vega) decides to escape to a remote Spanish island. When she arrives, she meets Carlos (Daniel Freire), a scuba diver, and Elena (Najwa Nimri), Lorenzo's former lover. As the twisted story unfolds, Lucía learns more about Lorenzo's tragic past, which may have been the inspiration for his latest novel -- and the root of his depression.

Director: Julio Medem
Screenwriter: Julio Medem
Distributor: Palm Pictures
Production Co: Sogecine
Rating: R (Strong Sexual Content|Language)
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Spanish (Spain)
Release Date (Theaters): Jul 12, 2002, Original
Release Date (Streaming): Feb 5, 2013
Box Office (Gross USA): $1.6M
Sound Mix: Surround, Dolby Digital, Dolby A, Dolby SR, Dolby Stereo

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