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Sex And Lucia [2002] [DVD]

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  • Actors: Paz Vega, Tristán Ulloa, Najwa Nimri, Elena Anaya, Daniel Freire
  • Directors: Julio Medem
  • Writers: Julio Medem
  • Producers: Anna Cassina, Enrique López Lavigne, Fernando Bovaira, Luis María Reyes
  • Format: Anamorphic, PAL, Widescreen
  • Language English, Spanish
  • Region: All Regions
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 18
  • Studio: Tartan Video
  • DVD Release Date: 28 Oct 2002
  • Run Time: 123 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00006JY5T
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 9,716 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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The opening of Sex and Lucia transforms the viewer into a hypnotic state of relaxation with shots of the deep blue sea. However, director Julio Medem has other ideas and immediately thereafter thrusts us into a modern-day restaurant where we first meet Lucia who is trying to prevent her boyfriend Lorenzo from committing suicide. Having returned home to find his infamous "note", she runs away to the island Lorenzo spoke of. Here the narrative becomes disjointed, jumping from past, to present, to imagination through Lorenzo's novel.

The premise of the film revolves around relationships and how the past comes back to haunt us all. Although the title indicates that there may be a level of pornography, the film does gauge itself on sex in the middle of the film--to little effect. As with great horror movies, it's what the imagination leads us to think is there and not what we see that titillates our senses and over indulgence leads to boredom after a while (perhaps this was Medem's intention?). However, despite this minor flaw Medem's imagery, as always, is stunning, from the relationship between the moon and the sun, to the sea and the beach, to the blatantly phallic lighthouse with a port hole, every image adds to the plot and once the narrative ties up the loose end you'll feel emotionally revitalised.

On the DVD: Sex and Lucia holds a disappointing array of special features. Roger Clarke's film notes are informative, but like the filmographies is pure text. It also includes the option to play without English subtitles. While the features are disappointing, the soundtrack and visual images offer nothing but unadulterated bliss; you can almost feel the sea wash over you. --Nikki Disney



Special Features

Anamorphic Wide Screen
DVD 5
Spanish
Region 0
Dolby Digital Spanish
Dolby Digital
Star And Director Filmographies
Scene Selection
Optional Subtitles
Original Theatrical Trailer
Roger Clarke Film Notes
Julio Medem Trailer Reel
English
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A gem, 17 May 2008
By Hugh Garske (Maidenhead, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sex and Lucia [DVD] [2002] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] (DVD)
An enthralling story that ebbs and flows to the control of the central theme the moon. The story initially floats on a tide of desire to one of despair and then drops through one of the analogous holes in the island to reappear on a different shore. The threads of this movie are interwoven in a way that is particularly well portrayed by the main character played by Paz Vega and the lines between fact and fiction are constantly blurred by an author being hurtled out of his block period.
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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Un rayo de sol., 28 April 2003
By Charlie S. (Chester, United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This film is beautiful. It takes the viewer on a painful but incredibly rewarding journey, somehow effortlessly getting away with convenient plot twists which would be impossible to not view cynically in any other film. The craftsmanship of Julio Medem is as expected second to none, and his creation is one of the most original films I have experienced. Excellent acting, stunning cinematography, and a story which touches your soul. I cannot recommend 'Lucia y el sexo' highly enough.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Hypnotic Spanish masterpiece, 24 Mar 2008
By Brendan O. Clarke "brendoclarke" (Edinburgh) - See all my reviews
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Sex and Lucia engages mind and body with its time-bending narrative and images of beauty. The story shifts between past and present, fact and fiction, so a plot summary won't capture it, but... A young writer named Lorenzo falls into a passionate relationship with a waitress named Lucía. But he also finds himself drawn to a young nanny taking care of a child who just might be the result of an anonymous fling Lorenzo had with a woman he met on an island the year before. Lorenzo fantasizes about the lives of all of these women until a horrific event sends him into a suicidal depression. This may sound obscure or flat, but Sex and Lucía unfolds clearly and beautifully, featuring stunning visual images of both nature and flesh, and weaving a poetic spell much like the director's previous film, The Lovers of the Arctic Circle.
SEX AND LUCIA is an absolutely brilliant blend of sex and story, of plot and circumstance, of reality and the art of crafting fiction around it. The film mesmerizes in its wonderfully poignant and wild portrayal of unabashedly adult sex while equally balanced with mature themes surrounding the human condition exploring life and liveliness ... and I've never seen anything quite like it before.
Sumptuously photographed on tropical islands not overloaded with lush foliage, SEX AND LUCIA vacillates between several storylines -- all uniquely intertwined by Lucia's exploration to find happiness and Lorenzo's quest to understand the life hidden behind the art of his writing. The two meet under terrifically charged circumstances, and their lives together reach a feverish intimate crescendo.

However, Lorenzo begins to fathom the consequences of the life he's led, leading him on a quest to understand who he is and how he could possibly have reached a new low in his life. Happiness thwarts his talents, and, instead, he allows the moments of human weakness he's experienced to drive him as emotionally low as a human being can possibly slip ... to the brink of death.

In the meantime, Lucia flees, unable to cope with the reality of Lorenzo's possible fate, and inadvertantly discovers that the life she's been leading is secretly intertwined with others, much in the way good novels unfold.
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5.0 out of 5 stars an ecstatic excursion into the realms of existence
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5.0 out of 5 stars A grand, metaphorical mystery and a radical piece of cinema
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3.0 out of 5 stars making it up
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