Sex and Lucia

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SIMAS C @simas_eros Oct 23, 2026 A film that doesn’t quite live up to its title, as it drifts away from Julia and gets lost in other narrative threads. Even so, it remains a classic of Spanish erotic cinema—largely thanks to the presence of the unforgettable and intensely sensual Paz Guerra. See more Huntin P @PaxVobiscum80 Sep 15, 2026 By this point Medem had passed the point of no return. The more restrained eroticism and, what could one call it, spiritual psychology (?) of his earlier work, that was long gone. Lucía y el sexo, aka Sex and Lucia, has a complicated narrative structure which is interesting, and as usual, very beautiful music from regular collaborator Alberto Iglesias. It gets committed performances from all the actors, in fact better to call them brave. But, well, the borderline hardcore sex, and that ludicrous story involving the pornstar's daughter? Eww! It's not that I'm a prude, it's that this aspect of the movie is silly beyond bearing. Too bad, because much of the rest is rather enchanting, and in one instance, horrifying. Today, after 25 years or so, I like the music best, but I no longer care to sit through a good third of this peculiar romantic fantasy. See more dave s @RT68722908 Jan 10, 2023 After the apparent suicide of her boyfriend, Lucia (Paz Vega) escapes to a desolate Spanish island where she attempts to put the pieces of her broken life back together. Sex and Lucia is an often beautiful and sometimes confounding film about loss, love, the horror of mental illness, and recovery, filled with symbolism, brutal coincidence, and plenty of insight into the creative process. Granted, the movie does feel muddled and more than a little confusing at times and many shots are horribly overexposed, perhaps intentionally, but the film is surprisingly life-affirming for those who stick it out until the end… and is surprisingly sexy when considering the subject matter. See more Kevin L @Lakeman Aug 13, 2022 There are some gorgeous women in this movie. Paz Vega has such a lovely face and amazing figure she had me recalling Maribel Verdu in "Y Tu Mama Tambien". That was a very sexy movie, and a better one than "Sex and Lucia". Overly complicated. ambiguous, vague, and frustrating, I found myself too often perplexed and even bored at times by a movie with this much lovely flesh and sex. I've read that the director talked of writing a screenplay, then a novel, then the novel into the screenplay...He seemed to want to simply engage us more than anything, freeing the characters with an absurd sense of plot to absorb our attention. The scenes/parts work well enough individually, rather like chapters in that novel. But it comes off as, well, rather novel in the other sense of that word. The film seems to turn itself inside out and start again. Still, there is some good acting from Vega and a couple of others to go with the absurdity and the blatant nudity. 2.9 stars See more Apr 5, 2021 The aesthetic and the sex are the main characters of the movie, embodied (though not entirely) by the main character, and it is through her and other characters that we understand that in the end sex is more complex than the act itself, and that sex through its absence but also its presence can lead to isolation, literally in this case, and that maybe being alone can be okay too if you know how to do it. See more s r @ScottR Mar 4, 2020 I finally got around to watching this one. It was artsy and seemed to embody the directors' fantasies. It also made me want to visit some of those places in Spain. See more Read all reviews

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