[18+] Sex And Lucia
Various lives converge on an isolated island, all connected by an author whose novel has become inextricably entwined with his own life.
14 February 1972, Pamplona, Navarra, Spain
17 July 1975, Palencia, Palencia, Castilla y León, Spain
6 May 1970, Orleans, France
1974, Ponferrada, Leon, Spain
29 December 1961, Buenos Aires, Argentina
19 January 1967, Albelda de Iregua, La Rioja, Spain
October 03, 2010
A bizarre, alternately joyful and gloomy take on sexual fantasies and complications. [Blu-ray]
January 07, 2004
Don't go in expecting Eurotrash art-porn, for the film tells a beautiful and earnestly romantic story.
October 04, 2002
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.
March 19, 2003
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.
September 05, 2002
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.
October 10, 2002
It's a thoughtful film that forces its characters and its viewers to wrestle with the difference between great sex and true intimacy.
August 23, 2002
A lot rides on coincidence. Or fate. Or the magic pull of the moon. It all makes sense in the end.
October 04, 2002
It's a hall of mirrors, this flick -- every one of them pretentious.
May 16, 2005
...a confusing and at times silly erotic film with some interesting visual ideas.
January 26, 2003
Sex ironically has little to do with the story, which becomes something about how lame it is to try and evade your responsibilities and that you should never, ever, leave a large dog alone with a toddler. But never mind all that; the boobs are fantasti
November 07, 2002
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.
August 22, 2003
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.

