Syed Shayan This movie cannot be explained in words.It has to to be watched in order to grasp the love portrayed by the actors.Wonderful acting by each character.The story has an appealing factor which keeps you glued to your screens.The first and the last scene are incredibly matched at the end.The story line is rigid and moves in a river like flow.The sex is hot and there is are no hurdles in expressing the true love that the characters have for each other.The movies leaves you satisfied in every way.From the intensive love making to the raging crying scenes, this movie delivers in each and every way.This movie shows the honest feelings that one person has for the other. The island on which the movie is made is a sight on its own.The lives of the characters are beautifully merged into one story.At one point the movie becomes more than sex it grows a successful story.The sex scenes are an additional perk,the sexy Spanish chicks and the intense and gratuitous sex scenes are merely to support the story.In this movie beauty is all around the way it was intended.The love in this movie is indescribable.In my opinion this movie delivers from the lust of boobs to the lust of an incredible story.

moose moose This movie started poorly and just got worse. The story was weak, the characters were shallow and poorly developed, the writing was not strong and the acting was mediocre. Each plot and sub-plot was washed out and uninteresting, it was convoluted, messy and there were continuity errors or maybe, in the mind of the director, they were 'devices' - in any case the story development was poorly executed. The way the story was knitted together using tricks and gimmicks where nothing is quite explained and the narration and dialogue is in riddles... very juvenile and poorly conceived, maudlin and misguided. The relationship between the leads was also not believable, probably in large part due to the fact that the Lorenzo character was a miscast. I would give it a 0 but can't because I couldn't finish it (very rare for me) and so it wouldn't be fair to give a full 0. Also, some of the cinematography was nice (albeit gimmicky at times) and Ana Vargas was very hot earning modest points, but overall an abject failure and waste of time.

itamarscomix One thing that can never be said about "Sex and Lucia" is that it's not interesting. It has a unique look and feel, more than almost any Spanish film I've seen, and also some very memorable and enticing scenes. The first thirty minutes work quite well as a slightly surreal relationship-based drama. The more it goes on, though, the more the plot twists and turns, and as much as I wanted to believe that it was all leading up to something, or that there was a substantial layer of subtext, I found myself not caring too much, and I got a strong feeling that Medem was deliberately making it more obscure and incoherent than it has to be for the sake of creating an artistic visage to cover for the fact that he didn't really have anything much to say.Some films bend and break genre conventions to create truly fascinating art; some films decide to ignore plot and coherency in favor of atmosphere and symbolism. "Sex and Lucia", unfortunately, doesn't do any of that. It does have quite intense atmosphere, and probably some layers of symbolism I couldn't be bothered to look for, but it just failed to capture me in any meaningful way. I was impressed with all the elements - gorgeous shots, good dialog and excellent acting - but it doesn't come together to create a real film, and it's too long and too heavy-handed to be enjoyed merely as a collection of individual scenes. Worst of all, it's not even about Lucia, nor is it about sex. It's about unlikable Lorenzo and figuring out what on earth Lucia sees in him. That's almost as big a mystery as what the film is actually about.

johnklem I watched Sex and Lucia ten years ago and liked it a lot. Time and the downward progress of mainstream cinema has been kind to Julio Medem's masterpiece. I watched it again recently and realised how underrated this film is. Lovers of the Arctic Circle is Medem's most easily appreciated work. It offers a straightforward story of love, fate and happenstance. Sex and Lucia is very different and much, much deeper. The sex of the title and the sex on screen inevitably confuse an American audience stuck in the 17th century of their pilgrim forbears. For the rest of us, this film is a revelation, a feast of sensual magical realism and intellectual mystery. It's also quite, quite beautiful and deeply moving. English language filmmakers, American and British, take note. This is cinema.