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Mood:
- SentimentalSexualSincereTouchingBittersweetSexyCaptivating
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Plot:
- Writer's LifeDealing With DeathStarting OverLove TriangleSexual RelationsArtists and ShowbizHopesLifestyle more...
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Genres:
- DramaEroticRomanceForeignMelodrama
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Time/Period:
- Contemporary21st Century
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Place:
- SpainIsland
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Audience:
- Date Night
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Praise:
- Award WinnerCritically Acclaimed
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Style:
- NonlinearSurreal
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- SeriousRealistic
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- Mild Violent ContentSexual Content
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Sex and Lucia, 2001
Spanish, English
Spain, France
Profile of Sex and Lucia
Sex and Lucia can be described as bittersweet, sexual, and sentimental. The plot revolves around starting over, the life of a writer, and dealing with death. The main genres are drama, foreign, and romance. In terms of style, Sex and Lucia is nonlinear, is surreal, and is a melodrama. In approach, it is serious and realistic. It is set, at least in part, on an island. Sex and Lucia is located in Spain. It takes place in contemporary times. The movie has received attention for being an award winner and critically acclaimed. Sex and Lucia is well suited for a date night. Note that it involves mild violent content and sexual content.
Summary of Sex and Lucia
A Madrid waitress, Lucia (Paz Vega), is mourning the loss of her boyfriend Lorenzo (Tristan Ulloa), a young novelist who died suddenly under mysterious circumstances. Unable to come to terms with his death, she takes a trip to a Mediterranean island that he told her about long ago, thinking about the novels Lorenzo wrote and the way that his work moved her. In flashbacks Lucia remembers her passionate relationship with him, and tries to reconcile unresolved feelings while sorting through the events of the confusing weeks leading up to his death. Shifting time frames and memories combine with Lorenzo's stories and blur the activity of the present. Meanwhile, characters who may or may not be linked to her life with Lorenzo--Carlos (Daniel Freyre), Elena (Najwa Nimri), and Belen (Elena Anaya)--turn Lucia's stay on the island into an intriguing tangle of interconnected stories. SEX AND LUCIA, with its sultry eroticism, testing and questioning of fate and the unpredictability of life, and its brightly bleached beach scenes, is a winding, nostalgic journey. Directed by Julio Medem (LOVERS OF THE ARCTIC CIRCLE), SEX AND LUCIA was received with acclaim at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival.
Details
| Language: | Spanish, English |
| Country: | Spain, France |
| Release date: | January 2002 |
| Runtime: | 128 min |
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