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Sex and Lucia

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

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Nick Schager Slant Magazine 03/19/2003
2.5/4
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. Go to Full Review
Eleanor Ringel Cater Atlanta Journal-Constitution 11/07/2002
C+
Perhaps our confusion is part of the whole idea, but Sex and Lucia would have a lot more impact if there were someone to give a damn about. Go to Full Review
Geoff Pevere Toronto Star 10/04/2002
3/5
While it's being the told, the story of Sex And Lucia is sufficiently seductive to keep you from noticing the holes forming in its universe. Go to Full Review
PJ Nabarro Patrick Nabarro 01/27/2019
4/5
A Freudian, subconscious essay on sex, dreams and the creative process. Go to Full Review
Peter Canavese Groucho Reviews 10/03/2010
3/4
A bizarre, alternately joyful and gloomy take on sexual fantasies and complications. [Blu-ray] Go to Full Review
Film Threat 12/06/2005
5/5
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Dave S 01/10/2023 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. See more Kevin L @Lakeman 08/13/2022 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 See more 04/05/2021 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. See more Scott R @ScottR 03/04/2020 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. See more 02/29/2020 Ggesdfttyhyyujhgfffrrd See more 12/21/2018 Sex and Lucia is one of the hottest erotic movies of all time. See more Read all reviews
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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
Producer
Fernando Bovaira, Enrique López Lavigne
Screenwriter
Julio Medem
Distributor
Palm Pictures
Production Co
Sogecine
Rating
R (Strong Sexual Content|Language)
Genre
Drama, Romance
Original Language
European Spanish
Release Date (Theaters)
Jul 12, 2002, Original
Release Date (Streaming)
Feb 5, 2013
Box Office (Gross USA)
$1.6M
Runtime
2h 5m
Sound Mix
Surround, Dolby Digital, Dolby A, Dolby SR, Dolby Stereo
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