Sex and Lucia (Lucía y el sexo) Reviews

If Sex and Lucia were any more explicit, you'd watch it in a booth and pay for it a quarter at a time.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

All very stylish and beautifully photographed, but far more trouble than it's worth, with fantasy mixing with reality and actors playing more than one role just to add to the confusion.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

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

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

An adept mood maker, Medem strains madly for cosmic alliances, fairy-tale imagery, and fated coincidences, but he triumphs only with two hot bodies, a cluttered apartment, and a Shower Massage.

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I found myself more appreciative of what the director was trying to do than of what he had actually done.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

An erotic but muddled marriage of fact and fiction, love and memory.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

Half-baked ponderings on the nature of fiction and reality.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

Between bedroom scenes, viewers may find themselves wishing they could roll over and take a nap.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4

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.

| Original Score: C+

So ridiculously overstuffed with rhymes, symbols, metaphors and mystical coincidences that you frequently feel as if you shouldn't be watching it so much as graphing it.

Full Review | Original Score: 39/100

| Original Score: 1.5/4

Unfortunately, the plot becomes such a puzzle that the central characters lose their urgency and the movie overstays its welcome.

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A beautifully made piece of unwatchable drivel.

| Original Score: 1.5/4

My reaction in a word: disappointment. His last movie was poetically romantic and full of indelible images, but his latest has nothing going for it.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

Sexy but pretentious melodrama.

| Original Score: 2.5/4

Instead of being truly erotic, like Y Tu Mama Tambien, or provocative, as with some of Catherine Breillat's work, Sex and Lucia is, quite simply, flaccid.

| Original Score: 2/4

A visually flashy but narratively opaque and emotionally vapid exercise in style and mystification.

Full Review | Original Score: C-

If you removed the show-time sex, would more than a handful of festival-fixated Americans bother to watch this? Unlikely.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

I kept tripping over the plot's raging implausibilities and reliance on outrageous coincidence.

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It's a hall of mirrors, this flick -- every one of them pretentious.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

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Unfortunately, Sex and Lucia turns out to be just like its '50s art film counterparts: a complex plot, subtitles, narrative obscurity, and only fleeting glimpses of nudity.

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