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Sex and Lucia is a Spanish drama film written and directed by Julio Médem, and starring Paz Vega and Tristán Ulloa. As suggested by the title, there is a great deal of passionate sexual content surrounding the love story of Lucía and Lorenzo as the plot dissolves into a very lyrical eroticism. The movie features a highly non-linear story line with repeated surreal references to the ocean and beach. Lucia (Vega) is a young Madrid waitress who is devastated to hear of the death of her old flame Lorenzo (Ulloa). Hoping to flee her troubles, she seeks out a beautiful island paradise her dead lover often talked about. There she meets and befriends Carlos and Elena, who are also refugees of personal tragedies. Unbeknownst to all of them, the three each have a connection to Lorenzo. Years previously, Elena had a spontaneous 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 enlisted the help of a nurse, Belen. 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 the lines between fact and fiction begin to slip away.Not every movie that is billed as 'erotic' deserves that distinction, but Sex And Lucia certainly does. It's the kind of intelligent, thoughtful film about sex and love that Hollywood just can't make as it presents a bizarre, alternately joyful and gloomy take on sexual fantasies and complications.

Trying to explain this movie's plot is an exercise in futility. It goes around in circles, delights in throwing the viewer completely for a loop. As the movie goes round and round you're left clinging to the hope that this will all get sorted out in the end. It doesn't. When the movie ends you're left questioning everything you have just seen. What did it all mean? Did it mean anything at all? What the heck just happened here? The whole thing is extremely convoluted. Trying to sort it all out may give you a migraine. It's an ambitious effort from director Julio Medem but he never quite manages to get his puzzle to fit together perfectly.Lorenzo is a novelist living in Madrid. Lucia is a big fan of his, veering close to stalker territory. Lorenzo deems it a good idea to have Lucia, whom he has just met and knows absolutely nothing about, move in with him. Lorenzo and Lucia then have sex. Lots and lots of sex. So the movie's title makes sense. The movie itself? There are times where it is very hard to make any sense of it. Lorenzo's writing a new novel and his life and his novel become intertwined to the point it's hard to discern what is real and what is imagined. The movie jumps back and forth in time and in location, going from Madrid to an idyllic island getaway where characters turn out to be connected in very convenient ways in order to keep the story going. The story never goes in a straight line, it's all over the place. If you can't figure it out don't despair because the characters are having a heck of a time figuring it out for themselves. As we watch Lorenzo struggle with his real life and his imagined one we think we may have an advantage because the movie already told us what ultimately happens to Lorenzo way back in the first few minutes. But the way this movie goes round in circles you find that even when you think you know something you don't really know anything at all.It's definitely an intriguing story but it all gets a little too messy. The good bits and pieces don't add up to a satisfying whole. There's much to appreciate but the end result leaves you feeling a bit dazed and probably a bit disappointed. After so much confusion you're left with an ending that's really no ending at all, just raising more questions. And by the time this movie ends the last thing it needs to be doing is raising more questions. Tristán Ulloa as Lorenzo and Paz Vega as Lucia both turn in good performances in the two critical roles and they are ably supported by some other fine performers around them. The fact that the stunningly beautiful Vega is constantly naked certainly doesn't hurt the movie's appeal. She's not the only one spending plenty of time without any clothes on though. When you look at the movie's title the Sex is just as important as the Lucia. The movie probably goes a tad overboard with the sex, a little gratuitous at times. But at least the sex scenes give you moments where you can forget about the convoluted story for a bit. In the end it's that story that ultimately lets down the movie. It's one of those movies that you get the sense is trying to be a little too smart for its own good. The movie makes for interesting but ultimately somewhat frustrating viewing.

I see the usual range of comments that a good art film gets - ranging from people more used to Hollywood dross who don't get it, to those looking too hard & seeing too much.'Too much sex' - sex is the driving force behind the character interactions so how can you leave it out. I suppose if we learn to make war & gangster films without any violence in? The only real titillating scene has no more than a pair of buttocks showing and is done to draw the watcher in to a horrible event. This scene left me with the same sense of shock as the two characters involved would be feeling and did it to a level that would not have been achieved otherwise.'Meta-stories' - I just saw a writer weaving his own experiences & imagination into his story & using it to deal with an experience that was too horrible to speak of to anyone, including his partner.This is a film that carries an air of surreal fantasy which is as blunt and intimate as life while being as subtle as the world we live in. It is truly beautiful.I only drop a point because the acting seemed flat but maybe this is only because my lack of Spanish forced me to follow the dialogue from the subtitles. The only actor that didn't seem slightly flat was Elena Anaya, something which tends to reinforce this possibility as her part relied more on action rather than dialogue.

Sure, this is the film where Paz Vega bares all and gives us many skintastic moments, but it is much more than that. It is also Elena Anaya's hottest picture. OK, now that we got the fact that two incredibly beautiful women give us the performances of their lives out of the way, let's focus on why this is a really good film, and not just a peep show.It's a surreal, non linear story of a writer who commits suicide, or does he?; of a sexual encounter that results in a child; of an enter-twining of a new love with the old life; of a story with real life. It is beautiful, romantic, and haunting with Oscar-nominee Alberto Iglesias' (The Kite Runner, The Constant Gardener) score.Paz Vega (Spanglish), Tristán Ulloa, Najwa Nimri (Before Night Falls), and Elena Anaya (appears in the elusive Alatriste) give super performances in this film.It is the best performance I have seen from Paz Vega.