Sex and Lucia
(2001)
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Sex and Lucia
(2001)
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| Paz Vega | ... | ||
| Tristán Ulloa | ... | ||
| Najwa Nimri | ... | ||
| Daniel Freire | ... | ||
| Elena Anaya | ... | ||
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Silvia Llanos | ... | |
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Diana Suárez | ... |
Madre de Belén
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| Javier Cámara | ... |
Pepe
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Juan Fernández | ... |
Jefe
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Charo Zapardiel | ... |
Comadrona
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María Álvarez | ... |
Enfermera
(as María Alvarez)
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Javier Coromina | ... |
Camarero Chiringuito
(as Javier Corominas)
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Arsenio León | ... |
Futbolista
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Alesandra Alvarez | ... |
Luna 1 año
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David Bulnes | ... |
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Lucía is a young waitress in a restaurant in the centre of Madrid. After the loss of her long-time boyfriend, a writer, she seeks refuge on a quiet, secluded Mediterranean island. There, bathed in an atmosphere of fresh air and dazzling sun, Lucía begins to discover the dark corners of her past relationship, as if they were forbidden passages of a novel which the author now, from afar, allows her to read. Written by Julio Medem
This movie works much better for me if I believe that everything occurring up to the closing scene, in which the writer rises from his keyboard and walks over to the woman at the window, occurs inside that unnamed, unidentified writer's head. In other words, everything we see up to that point, what we think is the movie, is actually the novel that writer is working on. "Lorenzo," "Lucía," "Elena," "Luna," "Belén," and even the editor "Pepe" are merely characters in that novel. The novel our "Lorenzo" is working on, the one "Lucia" sneak-reads, is a novel-within-a-novel. The back-and-forth time shifts are the larger novel's structure and only the movie's structure by default. The novel closes with "Lorenzo's" fantastical plot device of characters falling through a hole, coming back half-way into the story, and changing course: "Elena" and "Luna" reunited and playing in the piazza outside "Lorenzo's" flat. If this was Julio Medem's vision, then it was brilliant. If not, it's still an excellent movie. I think the naysaying commentators I've read need to watch the movie again.