By Chaos, Freelance WriterSEX AND Lucia is a great film.
That deserves another line.
Sex and Lucia is a great film.
Another line, but no different, because it does not have to be.
Where does one start? First of all, as the name might imply, there is sex, quite a lot of it, but unlike many American films, none of it is gratuitous, and even more to the point, it quite often seems very real, a trait this European film has that its American counterparts seem to consistently and constantly miss.
There are at least three tales which interchange, interlock and enchant in Sex And Lucia, which was shown recently at Redbones the Blues Café on Braemar Avenue, New Kingston. The movie is a tale of cause and effect, one which demonstrates that no matter the action, even if one thinks that that they are able to have fun for free, destiny, as it were, will kick you in the posterior.
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Sex And Lucia is all in Spanish, with English subtitles. Believe me, this is in no way a deterrent to seeing the film. There is a tortured author, Lorenzo (Tristan Ulloa), his girlfriend Lucia (the exotically-beautifully Paz Vega); his former stalker girlfriend Belen (Elena Anaya); a woman who had one night of fun and paid the price in more ways than one (Najwa Nimri as 'Elena') - and a man who suffers for having too much fun. There is also another man who may or may not be on the run from something. These characters' lives intertwine in interesting and sometimes bewildering ways. The film moves, almost giddily, throughout their stories and another in-between, one of the author's imagination or is it?
That is one of the beauties of the film. One is almost never sure of which story is being told, of whose life is being followed, whether fictional or not. There is sex and tragedy, sex and loss, sex and fiction, sex and desire, sex and murder and sex and redemption.
Sex With Lucia is shot simply, brightly sun-lit vistas almost washed out in their starkness. There is no cleverness with the camera and no need for such. The director, Julio Medem is above reproach as he constructs a tale which might leave one scratching their head, but that is one of the things that makes this film beautiful. It makes you think, long after the closing credits have rolled their way into fade to black.
