Sex and Lucía (2001)
(Sex and Lucía)
Country: SP/FR
Technical: col/scope 128m
Director: Julio Medem
Cast: Elena Anaya, Javier Camara, Daniel Freire, Silvia Llanos
Synopsis:
A writer's fascination with an island honeycombed with holes leads to his involvement with three beautiful women, the death of his daughter and his own near-fatal run-in with a car.
Review:
A return to form, though stylistically a natural progression from Lovers of the Arctic Circle. Once again we have the thematic preoccupation with natural phenomena, in this case the moon and sexual desire, and a penchant for fanciful turns in plotting. Although offering little more than its central conceit of a hole in the story through which one can travel back to the middle and change the outcome, it is gripping from start to finish and provides pretty much everything cinema was meant to: pity, fear, sex and the human face.
(Sex and Lucía)
Country: SP/FR
Technical: col/scope 128m
Director: Julio Medem
Cast: Elena Anaya, Javier Camara, Daniel Freire, Silvia Llanos
Synopsis:
A writer's fascination with an island honeycombed with holes leads to his involvement with three beautiful women, the death of his daughter and his own near-fatal run-in with a car.
Review:
A return to form, though stylistically a natural progression from Lovers of the Arctic Circle. Once again we have the thematic preoccupation with natural phenomena, in this case the moon and sexual desire, and a penchant for fanciful turns in plotting. Although offering little more than its central conceit of a hole in the story through which one can travel back to the middle and change the outcome, it is gripping from start to finish and provides pretty much everything cinema was meant to: pity, fear, sex and the human face.
(Sex and Lucía)
Country: SP/FR
Technical: col/scope 128m
Director: Julio Medem
Cast: Elena Anaya, Javier Camara, Daniel Freire, Silvia Llanos
Synopsis:
A writer's fascination with an island honeycombed with holes leads to his involvement with three beautiful women, the death of his daughter and his own near-fatal run-in with a car.
Review:
A return to form, though stylistically a natural progression from Lovers of the Arctic Circle. Once again we have the thematic preoccupation with natural phenomena, in this case the moon and sexual desire, and a penchant for fanciful turns in plotting. Although offering little more than its central conceit of a hole in the story through which one can travel back to the middle and change the outcome, it is gripping from start to finish and provides pretty much everything cinema was meant to: pity, fear, sex and the human face.