ORIGINAL TITLE
Sex and Lucia
YEAR 2001 DURATION 129 min. Spain
COUNTRY DIRECTOR SCREENWRITER
Julio Medem Julio Medem
MUSIC Alberto Iglesias
Kiko de la Rica PHOTO SHARING
Paz Vega, Tristán Ulloa, Najwa Nimri, Daniel Freire, Javier Cámara, Silvia Llanos, Elena Anaya, Diana Suárez, Juan Fernández, Arsenio León, Javier PRODUCER
Coromina Sogecine
Julio Medem brought a breath of fresh air in the beaten English cinema of the early 90s. It seemed (and still think) that we had not passed the artistic transition, a constant reminder of cinema in past periods, either the Republic or the Civil War, but our filmmakers opted for a very dog-eared road, probably because of the need to express after years of dictatorship. Therefore, the touch Lynchian of Medem, its surrealism, the strength of its images and the ability dreamy stories marked a before and after in the homeland. The overflow of imagination that emanated from his movies quickly placed him in the disparadero, both for better and for worse. And it is he who sees a film Medem choose a way of understanding cinema, almost a way of life. A filmmaker who loves or hates, a filmmaker who, as fans, do not understand, or a filmmaker who, critics say, is to be understood. Medem has never been a kind of middle ground, gray, has always opted for the black or white, and so it is completely unclassifiable.
Sex as alpha and omega
It would be highly difficult if not impossible, to try to draw rational conclusions and scientific demonstrations of the film as Lucy and sex , which moves constantly between the land of the real and the imaginary with absolute ease. And it raises a story Medem obviously difficult to follow if it intends to provide a consistency and coherence of the film call it serious, conventional, creating the feeling that we have a session of psychoanalysis of the true protagonist of the story. This is Lorenzo, whose dual identity narrative splits into two different layers, one brighter and one darker and closer to the nightmare. Why talk about a story? Because, as a fable, the intentions are very clear from the beginning, reaching the island Lucia and looking like a paella is only for two people, displaced feeling to see something as topical and seemingly silly, clear narrative feature of the genre. With an almost casual and built with clichés like a fairly innocent heroine, in a way, smiling and child looking for her prince charming, the Basque director raises a visceral approach to anything sexy or direct object of the title, sex , and we all have double identity and the impossibility of maintaining them. Begins with an idyllic scene and pompously romantic to the end, and slowly peels the relationship between people and connections established through sex, which, more or less, is the origin of everything, and an end, alluding to the eternal and necessary close relationship between eros and thanatos. Sexual practices are shown almost as a game, a diversion that serves as a communion, a sharing of feelings and emotions between two people and ending all motor becoming both a new life as the Lawrence's novel, the point on which the whole plot seems to be structured and, as his daughter Luna, stems from the encounter with a woman, breaking new ground for confusion.
Are we seeing the real thing with flesh and blood and it all comes from the mind of writer accident, which seems to live by and to shape a new world with lyrics? To highlight this, Medem plays skillfully with creating worlds almost abstract photography, where light and darkness are overexposed which fill the picture, creating a world fit the story, especially on the island, the heart of the story and place really raises the whole debate when Lucy falls through the hole at the beginning of quasi-initiatory journey, by way of Alice in Wonderland or Dorothy The Wizard of Oz, the hole, according to Lorenzo, I from returning to the point of the story that you feel like you, establishing a close game because the metaliterature and reflect on your own illusory world. The fact that all the characters match there on that island that only seems to know him, he gives everything an air absolutely fantastic, completely eliminating the boundaries between fiction and reality, leaving the action to chance without further justification that the credibility of the audience. In this game of truth or falsehood we have the complex relationship between Lorenzo, Lucia and Elena, and Luna's mother might suggest that the heroine is the daughter of novelist due to a sequence in which, while maintaining Lucia and Lorenzo sex, Elena gave birth, hence their relationship into crisis when the dog skews the girl's life. This is represented as something unattainable for the protagonist, the stability that gives a life in your hands, because of personal instability, which is terminated to go out of hand when the character of Bethlehem, or whatever it is, bad sex, visceral, passionate, gets in front of him, as the film establishes two different types of sexuality, romantic, which is used to establish an emotional bond that always brings something (Lorenzo, Lucia Elena) of essentially joyful and how Cronenberg, almost sickly (Lorenzo-Bethlehem), which decentralized the soul and collapse results in a moral and vital for both. Also the young writer has a representation in its own history, which are only three female characters, Carlos / Antonio.
Like a mental patient, a schizophrenic it were, through it exposes your animal side and parent, that is repressed and never let out, the mysterious alter ego only appears to trigger the baser passions of women, who often have just fought among themselves for him, and ends up destroying the character of Bethlehem and his mother and finally decides to travel to the island where all to unwind, where you will learn Lucia and Elena, until the ego, Lorenzo, come put some order, but just when it is accompanied Pepe, disappears through the hole to be replaced by a lighthouse, a symbol of Lorenzo when he spoke to Alsi, the cyberidentity of Elena, and coincidentally, we typically end with a storyteller (in a good way), where Lorenzo and Lucia Elena seems to end up together and realize that the girl's father of her child is neither more nor less than Moon, who will return to life as the heroine holds her prince after all has ceased to be the white light as non-existent and abstract and indefinite world has taken shape.
Movie intense, highly recommendable, unlike the Medem film, not age or pales in seconds screenings. Without reaching the pastel reached in the very repellent Chaotic Ana, Sex and Lucia is the artistic zenith of a goldsmith visual image has then been unable to repeat such an accomplishment. Sutil puzzle where the pieces trying to fit it to lose some of its charm can be enjoyed as a love immortal such calls, with some outstanding performances (Elena Anaya putting all eggs in one basket, quite literally) and use Digital's impressive despite being a pioneer in this regard.
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