Sex and Lucía

Original title: Lucía y el sexo

2001
TV-MA
2h 8m

IMDb RATING

7.0/10

39K

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Various lives converge on an isolated island, all connected by an author whose novel has become inextricably entwined with his own life.Various lives converge on an isolated island, all connected by an author whose novel has become inextricably entwined with his own life.Various lives converge on an isolated island, all connected by an author whose novel has become inextricably entwined with his own life.

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IMDb RATING

7.0/10

39K

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

2,616

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Awards
- 11 wins & 18 nominations

Enfermera
(as María Alvarez)

Javier Coromina

Camarero Chiringuito
(as Javier Corominas)

Arsenio León

Futbolista

Alesandra Álvarez

Luna 1 año
(as Alesandra Alvarez)

David Bulnes

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José Ferreira

Emplastro
(uncredited)

Director
- Julio Medem
Writer
- Julio Medem
All cast & crew
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Trivia
Some of the most sexual explicit content was made by doubles, not by the main actors.

Goofs
A full moon between two buildings is shown during midday when Lorenzo meets his daughter Luna for the first time - which is astronomically impossible.

Quotes
Lorenzo: 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.
Elena: All the time you want.

Crazy credits
Credits scroll in the opposite direction.

Alternate versions
The US cut removes most of the frontal nudity and runs approximately 2 minutes shorter.

Connections
Featured in Brows Held High: Room in Rome (2013)

Soundtracks
Un Rayo de Sol
Written by Daniel Vangarde (as Vangarde), Claude Carrère and Amado Jaén (as Jaen)
(c) Bleu Blanc Rouge Editions Soc - Editions Productions Zagora
Ediciones Musicales Clipper's, S.L.

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Review

Featured review

9/10

It's not about sex. . .

. . .and it's not really even about Lucia! Lucia y el Sexo is actually about Lorenzo, Lucia's novelist boyfriend, and the consequences of a sexual encounter he had in the past which has led to a catastrophic event in his life. It's a languid and tempestuous poem of a movie, told in a non-linear way by the extremely ambitious Julio Medem.

As a novelist myself, I deeply related to Lorenzo's blurring of reality and imagination. Your characters MUST be real to you in order for them to live and breathe on the page, and so much of your own life goes into the characters that the lines of course do blur. And then there's the subconscious, which cannot differentiate between fantasy and reality. Medem understands all this very well, and his depiction of it is remarkable.

The title, I believe, refers to Lorenzo's past (The Sex and what happened as a result of it), and his present (Lucia). Paz Vega and Tristan Ulloa are stunning as the two leads - Vega with her fierce intelligence and Ulloa with his tormented vulnerability. I would have given this film a 10 if it hadn't been for the fact that the most pivotal scene is shot in an incredibly vague manner, which left me confused as to what had actually happened until much later in the movie, but it is a brilliant and heartfelt experience nonetheless.