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Beneath the gratuitous nudity lies a complex and visually striking movie.
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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. Nov 7, 2002 | Rating: 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.
Eleanor Ringel Cater
It's a thoughtful film that forces its characters and its viewers to wrestle with the difference between great sex and true intimacy. Oct 10, 2002 | Rating: 3/5
It's a thoughtful film that forces its characters and its viewers to wrestle with the difference between great sex and true intimacy.
Roger Moore
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. Oct 4, 2002 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
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.
Geoff Pevere
It's a hall of mirrors, this flick -- every one of them pretentious. Oct 4, 2002 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
It's a hall of mirrors, this flick -- every one of them pretentious.
Rick Groen
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. Sep 5, 2002 | Rating: 3/4
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.
Carrie Rickey
A lot rides on coincidence. Or fate. Or the magic pull of the moon. It all makes sense in the end. Aug 23, 2002 | Rating: B-
A lot rides on coincidence. Or fate. Or the magic pull of the moon. It all makes sense in the end.
Eric Harrison
A Freudian, subconscious essay on sex, dreams and the creative process. Jan 27, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
A Freudian, subconscious essay on sex, dreams and the creative process.
PJ Nabarro
A bizarre, alternately joyful and gloomy take on sexual fantasies and complications. [Blu-ray] Oct 3, 2010 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
A bizarre, alternately joyful and gloomy take on sexual fantasies and complications. [Blu-ray]
Peter Canavese
...a confusing and at times silly erotic film with some interesting visual ideas. May 16, 2005 | Rating: B
...a confusing and at times silly erotic film with some interesting visual ideas.
Philip Martin
Don't go in expecting Eurotrash art-porn, for the film tells a beautiful and earnestly romantic story. Jan 7, 2004 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
Don't go in expecting Eurotrash art-porn, for the film tells a beautiful and earnestly romantic story.
Michael Dequina
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. Aug 22, 2003 | Rating: 4/5
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.
Bryan Reesman
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. Mar 19, 2003 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
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.
Nick Schager
"The first advantage is at the end of the story. It doesn't finish, it falls in a hole. And the story starts again halfway. The other advantage, and the biggest, is that you can change course along the way... If you let me. If you give me time."
Super Reviewer
A waitress falls in love with a novelist who has a secret in his past; parts of the movie describe their real love story, and parts are dramatizations of a novel the male lead is writing, with it largely left to the audience to decide which is which. Ambitious, multi-layered story with great performances and cinematography; the brief explicit sex scenes are a gimmick.
The earlier film by Julio Médem (Lovers of the Arctic Circle) is a prelude to the kind of cinematography that this Spanish film director/writer presents here. I have read most of the other comments, but they don't do justice to it, mainly because of the lack of understanding the original tongue of this film. The screenplay is excellent, full of metaphors and a rich use of very carefully chosen words. People who consider this film just an excuse for depicting sex scenes as the highlight of the movie are pretty much clueless. It is more than that, it is the complex storytelling that tangles the characters in this movie and the way that is told. Compelling and breath-taking. A must see.
One of the strangest storylines ever, which confuses the viewer throughout, that I think, is the beauty of this piece. There is something quite addictive about the story. This is a film that definitely benefits from multiple viewing As I?m sure you will guess from its title though, this film is pretty graphic sexually, so if scenes of this nature are likely to cause offence, cross this one off your list. However, for a film as sexually graphic as this one, there is most definitely a great storyline to accompany it.
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