Passion, Love, Sex and Lucia
Sex and Lucia is a Spanish drama film directed by Julio Medem. It stars Paz Vega(Lucia) and Trista Ulioa(her lover). The movie follows the tragic stories and events that relate all of the film’s characters.
Lucia was a young Madrid waitress who was devastated to hear of the death of her boyfriend Lorenzo. in order to escape from all the stress, she went to an island her dead lover often talked about. There she meets and befriends Carlos and Elena. Unknown to all of them, the three each had a connection to Lorenzo. A few years ago, Elena had a fling with Lorenzo on the same island on the beach. Nine months later, she bore his daughter, Luna. But unable to raise a child on her own, she let a Belen, a nurse, to take care of the child. In attempting to reconnect with the child he never knew, Lorenzo had a passionate affair with Belen, one which caused her to neglect Luna, with tragic results. As Lucia slowly learns these details, she recalls the book Lorenzo was writing just before his death, and soon realizes that the story that was supposed to be fiction were real.
The film was character-driven, for it focused in the life of Lucia and the lives of everyone surrounding her. As suggested by the film’s title, there is a great deal of ardent sexual content surrounding the love story of Lucia and Lorenzo. The movie attributes a highly non-linear story line with repeated references to the ocean and the beach.
Overall, the movie was good.
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