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Its
intricate story leaves the straight and narrow early on, only to curve neatly
back onto itself by the end.
Spanish sitcom
actress Paz Vega gives a radiant, sexy performance as the title character, a Madrid
waitress who receives a telephone call telling her of the death of her author
boyfriend Lorenzo (Ulloa).
Retreating to a
sun-bleached Mediterranean island he had spent time on, she recalls their intense
relationship.
His writings reveal the tale of a one-night stand years earlier with Elena (Nimri
from "Lovers of the Arctic Circle"), who runs the boarding house Lucia
holes up in and who, unbeknown to Lorenzo, gave birth to a daughter, Luna, after
their brief encounter.
As those familiar
with Medem's past work will expect, "Sex and Lucia" is a difficult film
to pin down. Lorenzo's circular narratives blur the lines between fiction and
reality, and the viewer gets carried along on waves of fate and coincidence.
The director's
trademark use of elemental symbolism also gives the movie other meanings not tied
to plot, with the sun and moon joining the sea as forces shaping the characters'
lives.
Even the island that draws Lucia, Lorenzo, and Elena to it reputedly floats unsteadily
on the water.
And everything
revolves around sex, from procreation to pornography, portrayed in the sort of
unembarrassed, explicit detail in vogue in European arthouse releases these days.
An intoxicating experience.
In Spanish with
English subtitles.
"Sex and Lucia"
opens in UK cinemas on Friday 10th May 2002.
Reviewed by , ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Films
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