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Sex and Lucía (2001)

Posted By: Mindsnatcher
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Sex and Lucía (2001)

Sex and Lucía (2001)
1080p BDRip | mkv | x265 HEVC @ 2188 Kbps, 23.976 FPS | 1920 x 816 | 2h 7min | 3.37 GB
6-ch Spanish DTS @ 1509 Kbps, 48.0 kHz, 24-bit | Subtitle: English
Genres: Erotic, Romance, Drama | Country: Spain

Sex and Lucía (2001)
Sex and Lucía (2001)
Sex and Lucía (2001)
Sex and Lucía (2001)
Sex and Lucía (2001)
Sex and Lucía (2001)
Sex and Lucía (2001)
Sex and Lucía (2001)
Sex and Lucía (2001)
Sex and Lucía (2001)
Sex and Lucía (2001)
Sex and Lucía (2001)

Lucía (Vega) is a waitress who is involved in a long running live-in relationship with a writer named Lorenzo (Tristán Ulloa). Lucía is involved in a tense phone conversation with Lorenzo which hints at Lorenzo's distraught, perhaps suicidal, tendencies. She rushes to their apartment, finds him missing, receives a devastating call from the police, and instantly decides to visit the island Lorenzo had often spoken of, setting out on a quest for peace and perhaps a few answers. And then it's flashback time, to six years earlier. In an evocative segment, we see Lorenzo partaking in semi-anonymous sex with a lovely woman in a dappled black ocean underneath an improbably large moon. A few moments later, a cutaway shows us the woman is pregnant by Lorenzo and is out to track him down.

Having seen the anonymous woman in the water and then Lucía in the film's setup, we're therefore momentarily confused (the first of many such instances in this often dreamlike film) when Lucía pops up at a restaurant where Lorenzo is meeting with his agent, Pepe (Javier Cámara), and professes her undying love for Lorenzo. Are we in a film where two women play one character? No, we're actually in a film where one man plays two characters (or something like that), but more about that in a moment. As completely improbable as the scene plays, Lucía has been harboring a secret, near obsessive, crush on Lorenzo since she read his first novel. In an equally improbable turn of events, Lorenzo falls more or less instantly in love with Lucía, and we're off on a whirlwind romance, including (of course) hot, steamy sex with no visual holds barred.

Through a winding series of equally improbable events, it turns out Pepe has discovered that the anonymous woman is named Elena (Najwa Nimri) and he tells Lorenzo how to connect with his previously unknown daughter, now a young girl of around five or six. Lorenzo sets off to discover the girl at a local playground and is almost immediately infatuated with the girl's babysitter, Belén (Elena Anaya). It's at this point that whatever tenuous hold on storytelling logic the viewer has managed to muster slips through the fingers like dappled black ocean water during a midnight sexual tryst. Lorenzo decides his new novel will be about his daughter, the babysitter, and the babysitter's family, which includes a former porn star and a hulking live-in boyfriend. Sex and Lucía wanders, trance-like, between so many time periods and elements which can be seen as either fiction (i.e., what's going on in Lorenzo's novel) or reality that the narrative becomes a rather messy jumble, especially when a life changing tragedy is handled rather strangely and cursorily. By the time we get Daniel Friere playing two parts (or is it simply one character with two names, one an alias?), it's obviously time to paraphrase David Byrne and stop trying to make sense. But that may indeed be Medem's very point. He wants to circumnavigate the rational mind to get to the passionate heart of the matter.

If the story itself is too confusing and coincidental for its own good, the performances, scenery and directorial decorations help to alleviate any discomfort the more logically demanding viewer may feel. Vega and Ulloa make a very believable couple, never overdoing the erotic aspects of the story. Nimri and Anaya are a bit more mannered, but their parts demand a perhaps more tic-filled approach. The gorgeous scenery is extremely evocative, though Medem's decision to shoot this film on digital video leaves the image teetering on the edge of incomprehensibility sometimes. With a plethora of post-processed shots and both overblown and underdeveloped contrast (depending on the scene), the visual confusion aptly mirrors that being experienced in the storyline. There's also a lot of high-falutin' quasi-symbolic imagery of the moon, sun and water, but Medem never really clarifies what he's getting at, other than some lovely footage. But Medem, despite some clichés, is a director who is able to craft meaningful moments, if an overall arching drama has thus far eluded him.

Sex and Lucía no doubt benefited from the media brouhaha caused by its explicit sexual depictions (both Seattle dailies in fact refused to run ads for the film). Whether or not the audiences who flocked to the film in its theatrical release actually got what they bargained for is anyone's guess, but this isn't a purely prurient film by any means. Medem at least makes a passing glance at trying to explore the often hidden connections between people, whether those connections be physical or spiritual. If the film never really makes a great deal of sense, it's a kaleidoscope of ideas and images that provokes and entices in equal measure.

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