Sex and Lucia (Lucía y el sexo) (2001)
Average Rating: 6.5/10
Reviews Counted: 69
Fresh: 49 | Rotten: 20
Beneath the gratuitous nudity lies a complex and visually striking movie.
Average Rating: 5.6/10
Critic Reviews: 23
Fresh: 13 | Rotten: 10
Beneath the gratuitous nudity lies a complex and visually striking movie.
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Following up on his 1998 art-house hit Lovers of the Arctic Circle, Julio Medem spins this audacious film about flesh and forgetting. Lucia (Paz Vega) is a young Madrid waitress who is devastated to hear of the death of her old flame Lorenzo (Tristan Ulloa). Hoping to flee her troubles, she seeks out a beautiful island paradise her dead lover often talked about. There she meets and befriends Carlos (Daniel Freyre) and Elena (Najwa Nimri) who are also refugees of personal tragedies. Unbeknownst
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Cast
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Paz Vega
Lucia -
Tristan Ulloa
Lorenzo -
Najwa Nimri
Elena -
Daniel Freire
Antonio, Carlos -
Elena Anaya
Belen -
Silvia Llanos
Luna -
Javier Cámara
Pepe
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All Critics (84) | Top Critics (26) | Fresh (51) | Rotten (20) | DVD (11)
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.
Top CriticIt's a thoughtful film that forces its characters and its viewers to wrestle with the difference between great sex and true intimacy.
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.
It's a hall of mirrors, this flick -- every one of them pretentious.
What distinguishes Julio Medem's humid, magic-realist eroticon from the average soft-core fare is its writer-director's playful interest in storytelling as a form of sexual sublimation and release.
A lot rides on coincidence. Or fate. Or the magic pull of the moon. It all makes sense in the end.
A bizarre, alternately joyful and gloomy take on sexual fantasies and complications. [Blu-ray]
...a confusing and at times silly erotic film with some interesting visual ideas.
Don't go in expecting Eurotrash art-porn, for the film tells a beautiful and earnestly romantic story.
Not every movie that is billed as 'erotic' deserves that distinction, but director Julio Medem's Sex And Lucia certainly does. It's the kind of intelligent, thoughtful film about sex and love that Hollywood just can't make.
As a randy film about sexy people in gorgeous places being pushed and pulled (literally and figuratively) by desire ... [Sex and Lucía] makes for an arousing good time.
Even if you can't make heads or tails of Sex and Lucía's story, there's no dearth of naked pleasures to keep one's, ahem, mind at attention.
Sex ironically has little to do with the story, which becomes something about how lame it is to try and evade your responsibilities and that you should never, ever, leave a large dog alone with a toddler. But never mind all that; the boobs are fantasti
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Foreign Titles
- Lucia und der Sex (DE)
- Sex & Lucia (UK)
