Sex and Lucia

Name: Sex and Lucia
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: July 12, 2002
Duration: 128 min
Rating: 65
Cast: Daniel Freire, Elena Anaya, Najwa Nimri, Paz Vega, Tristán Ulloa

2002

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Palm Pictures | Release Date: July 12, 2002 | TV-MA

Starring: Daniel Freire, Elena Anaya, Najwa Nimri, Paz Vega, Tristán Ulloa

Summary: Lucia is a young waitress in Madrid. After the loss of her long-time boyfriend, a writer, she seeks refuge on a quiet, secluded Mediterranean island, where she begins to discover the dark corners of her past relationship. (Palm Pictures)

Director: Julio Medem

Genre(s): Drama, Romance

Rating: TV-MA

Runtime: 128 min

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Tim Merrill

Medem's astonishing, magical-realist love story Sex and Lucía is easily the best Spanish film since "All About My Mother." But such a statement actually undersells the beauty of what Medem has created, which in many ways rather defies description. Read full review

Michael O'Sullivan

It's still pretty darn good, despite its smarty-pants aura. Read full review

New Times (L.A.) Andy Klein

Fans of convoluted narrative in the manner of Christopher Nolan and David Lynch are likely to be intrigued, although Medem has a far stronger streak of sentiment.

Michael Wilmington

The movie is a journey into a land of wonders beneath the surface of consciousness -- but it's also a sexual ride of unabated heat. You may be confused by Sex and Lucia, but you won't be unmoved. Read full review

Kenneth Turan

Medem is one of the few directors who understands sensuality and knows how to make it happen on screen. Sex and Lucia specializes in pleasant eroticism, using nudity, Koko de la Rica's dreamy cinematography and Alberto Iglesias' Goya-winning score to create episodes of voluptuous lovemaking. Read full review

Jonathan Foreman

If you're starved for on-screen nudity and sex garnished with art-film trappings -- The price you'll pay is putting up with the director's relentless Euro-pretension, manifested in a tediously contrived plot crammed with absurd coincidences, clunky symbolism and soap-operatic melodrama. Read full review

Mick LaSalle

Goes nowhere. Read full review

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F.Valeron

Mar 31, 2006

Lucia y el Sexo is quite possibly one of the greatest films we're all ever going to get to see. It's so rare for a film to magically engage every sense simultaneously, and, it seems to me, the films that manage this are increasingly coming from Spain and South America. This one is Lucia y el Sexo is quite possibly one of the greatest films we're all ever going to get to see. It's so rare for a film to magically engage every sense simultaneously, and, it seems to me, the films that manage this are increasingly coming from Spain and South America. This one is a masterpiece.… Expand

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susangrinker

Feb 28, 2007

Was one of the top 10 audience favorites at the Seattle Film festival. I liked it so much that I saw it all three times it played!!!

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GREEK-GOD

Jan 5, 2018

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This Spanish film has an unusual look and feel and dares to take chances in the way that it mixes fantasy and reality. The result is an interesting film, which is often confusing and frustrating. I'm sure that this was not entirely accidental and that the filmmakers wanted to keep the audience in a state of disorientation. Nevertheless, the convolutions of the story appear to serve no other purpose than to keep us off balance. The films biggest sin is the scene in the middle of the film where the daughter Luna opens the bedroom door. The following event is presented in such a way that we are left guessing as to what has just happened. There's no reason for withholding it, except the misguided idea that lack of clarity is artistically valuable. I think that despite it's flaws, this film shows a great vibrancy and energy. People talk a lot about the sex scenes. The film doesn't have much to say about sex and it certainly isn't about sex. Nevertheless, the scenes do not seem tacked on for the sake of it and, in an era when Hollywood seems to be gripped by a new puritanism, it's refreshing to see a frank depiction of what is, after all, an important aspect of the relationship between these characters.… Expand

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DEEPVALLEY

Jan 17, 2018

An exercise in acquired taste, the movie is an exceptionally shot piece of art with Paz Vega eclipsing the domains of beauty. Though tad challenging at times and a probable disturbing watch for those who don't like sex in movies, it touches human complexity and obsession at a differentAn exercise in acquired taste, the movie is an exceptionally shot piece of art with Paz Vega eclipsing the domains of beauty. Though tad challenging at times and a probable disturbing watch for those who don't like sex in movies, it touches human complexity and obsession at a different level. Picturesque.… Expand

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Broyax

Apr 6, 2018

Avec un titre pareil, on se dit qu'on va s'en payer une tranche et c'est à moitié vrai : l'actrice principale est très mignonne et ne rechigne pas à l'ouvrage, ni sa petite copine qui intervient plus tard dans le film. Notez cependant qu'elles ne font rien ensemble, je ne voudrais pas vousAvec un titre pareil, on se dit qu'on va s'en payer une tranche et c'est à moitié vrai : l'actrice principale est très mignonne et ne rechigne pas à l'ouvrage, ni sa petite copine qui intervient plus tard dans le film. Notez cependant qu'elles ne font rien ensemble, je ne voudrais pas vous induire en erreur.

Donc ça parle de Lucia et de cul (on avait compris) ainsi qu'éventuellement de polichinellle sorti du tiroir autour duquel un écrivain bâtit son roman, lui le père impromptu à l'insu de son ignorance et amoureux fou de Lucia. En fait, les situations et les personnages se téléscopent dans tous les sens et on entrave que dalle.

Malgré une mise en scène qui se veut bien léchée et un érotisme souvent frontal, voire légèrement pornographique, le propos est répétitif et rasoir en plus de rassembler pas mal de clichés des étrons d'Almodovar dont on se passerait aisément. La poésie surréaliste onirique (?) avec du cul, c'est bien joli mais définitivement assommant sur ce long cours de plus de deux plombes d'une grande confusion.… Expand

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