Sex and Lucia movie btoryline. 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.
Sex and Lucia (Spanish: Lucía y el Sexo) is a 2001 Spanish drama film written and directed by Julio Medem, and starring Elena Anaya, Javier Camara, Daniel Freire, Silvia Llanos, Najwa Nimri, Tristán Ulloa, Paz Vega, María Álvarez, Diana Suárez, Arsenio León and Alesandra Alvarez. The film was shot on two separate locations along the Mediterranean coast in Spain and France.
Sex and Lucia soon became an international success, winning Vega a Goya Award for Best Female Newcomer. The cinematography is by Kiko de la Rica, and the score by Alberto Iglesias, who also won a Goya Award for his work.
About the Story
Lucía (Paz Vega), a waitress, is talking on the phone with her depressed writer boyfriend Lorenzo (Tristán Ulloa) after they had a nasty argument, where, afterward, she walked out. Since he has been in a ‘funk’ for a while, she’s worried and goes home to console him. Finding an empty apartment, Lucía is frantic.
She receives a phone call from the police while finding a suicide note, and is so afraid of bad news that she hangs up, assuming the worst. They call back, but she ignores the ringing phone, packs a bag, and flees. Looking for a new beginning, Lucía travels to the mysterious Balearic Islands that Lorenzo had always talked of, but had recently been very negative about.
Six years earlier: Lorenzo is having casual sex in the ocean, on a bright moon-lit night, with a beautiful married woman he just met named Elena. They part ways, expecting to never see each other again. She discovers she is pregnant with his child, and attempts to find him, but, not knowing much about him, is unable to.
Later, as Lorenzo talks with his literary agent at a restaurant, discussing his writer’s block, Lucía catches his attention as he gets up from his table to get cigarettes. She asks to speak to him and he joins her. She brazenly tells him that ever since she read his latest book, she has been following him and has fallen passionately in love with him. A smitten Lorenzo immediately engages the sexy, passionate Lucía and she moves into Lorenzo’s apartment.
The film then interweaves the past and present, of the characters in the film, and the characters in Lorenzo’s novel. Lorenzo repeatedly stalls for time on his new book with his editor, while his relationship with Lucía deepens. About six years pass. Lorenzo learns he has a daughter as a result of his encounter with Elena and begins to visit the child at her school, meeting her babysitter Belén.
Belén tells Lorenzo her mother is a recently retired porn actress with a new hot boyfriend, and virtually seduces Lorenzo with chatter of sexual context and banter about her fantasies. Lorenzo uses these encounters and his fantasies about Belén and her mother as content for his book, and Lucía reads about it, thinking it fiction. Meanwhile, he does not disclose his fatherhood to Lucía or the child, nor even attempt to contact Elena.
Belén flirts with Lorenzo and eventually invites him over to Elena’s house while she babysits his daughter, Luna. Lorenzo tells Luna a bedtime story, and after she falls asleep, he and Belén begin to have sex. They are interrupted as Luna knocks at the bedroom door, and they watch in horror as the family dog, a large Rotweiler in ‘protect mode’ kills Luna. Belén is stunned. Lorenzo runs away and falls into a deep depression.
Lorenzo’s writing turns dark, towards depraved sex and death. He anonymously contacts Elena, who has moved to the island to find solace and recall better days, and provides her a nice story about a beautiful child that loves to swim in the sea, to cheer her spirits. But his now guilt-ridden and uncommunicative relationship with Lucía begins to collapse.
Back in the present, Lucía meets a scuba diver on the island, Carlos, and through him, Elena, who runs an inn on the island. Lucía rents a room, and the women bond as friends, not knowing their intimate connection. But when Lucía mentions Lorenzo by name, and his past visit to the island long ago, Elena deduces the connection. Lucía sees a picture of Luna (looking remarkably like her father and remembering the name from Lorenzo’s novel) and she makes the connection too.
Sex and Lucia – Lucía y el Sexo (2002)
Directed by: Julio Medem
Starring: Elena Anaya, Javier Camara, Daniel Freire, Silvia Llanos, Najwa Nimri, Tristán Ulloa, Paz Vega, María Álvarez, Diana Suárez, Arsenio León, Alesandra Alvarez
Screenplay by: Julio Medem
Cinematography by: Kiko de la Rica
Costume Design by: Estíbaliz Markiegi
Set Decoration by: Víctor Molero
Art Direction by: James David Goldmark, Montse Sanz
Makeup Department: Juan Rodríguez Valverde, Gregorio Ros
Music by: Alberto Iglesias
Distributed by: Warner Sogefilms A.I.E. (Spain), Colifilms Distribution (France), Palm Pictures (United States)
Release Date: June 12, 2002
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