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Title: Sex and Lucía (2001)
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| Paz Vega | ... | Lucía | |
| Tristán Ulloa | ... | Lorenzo | |
| Najwa Nimri | ... | Elena | |
| Daniel Freire | ... | Carlos / Antonio | |
| Elena Anaya | ... | Belén | |
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Silvia Llanos | ... | Luna |
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Diana Suárez | ... | Madre de Belén |
| 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) |
| 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 | ... | Actor porno |
Lucia is a waitress who lives and works in Madrid. After what she believes to be the loss of her boyfriend, the tortured writer Lorenzo, she flees to a secluded island that he had often told her about. There she meets Carlos and Elena, who have also run away to the island to escape personal tragedy. Unbeknownst to them, all three have a connection to Lorenzo. Elena met him many years ago on that same island and enjoyed beautiful, anonymous lovemaking with him in the sea by the light of a full moon. 9 months later, Elena gave birth to Luna, but never managed to find Lorenzo. Carlos was the stepfather of Belen, who disappeared after she unwittingly caused the death of Luna. As she hears more about the past of her two new housemates, Lucia is reminded of the book Lorenzo was writing, a tale about a journey into a dark, deep past that brought on his depression. Soon, the lines between fact and fiction begin to fall apart. Written by Cervantes
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Written reality. I had the unexpected pleasure of seeing this soon after Ruiz's Proust. Both about writers creating a life.
Time folding. Narrative layers.
The three sisters from 'Alice in Wonderland,' here named Alsi/Elana, Lucia (the Alice, an anagram, in fact one that Carroll used) and Belin. The story is to Alice, for Alice, about Alice and generates the world that Alice lives in. The lighthouse and hole.
Its less than intelligent in the level of the story: lust drives meaning, but that's because the written novel is at that vulgar level. This film starts slow and ordinary, just as the novel within. But we soon weave all sorts of ambiguous narrative threads, each creating the other. The last half of the film is a bedtime story, a novel, a suicide note, a coma-induced dream, a recipe, an internet communication, a climax-induced hallucination, a blindfolded taste.
A man loves three women. Another man mirrors him. Lots of coupling, ethereal angst,
Two of the sisters plus the author (and his double), all possibly dead (all possibly fictional), on the island of conception. And the story starts again halfway.
Some lightly nuanced direction here. Endearment without cloying. The only thing in this film that is not sensually romantic is that the computer is a PeeCee and not a Mac. You'd think they'd know.
Ted's Evaluation -- 3 of 4: Worth watching.