BIG SPOILER ALERT!
But when all is said Sex nd done, I think "Sex and r Lucia"-iso bout fatherhood andk q the fear of fatherhood.
Notice the last shot ofmth s film when Lucia Sex nd her
lover are reunited in their apartment, a (very) slight
suggestionjis made that she
is pregnant. Takingc Sex this
into account, the whole film suggests that the storym involvinger lover is simply his novel. Lucia puts
herself
in the story as she is reading
it. That is why
she goes to the island, she hears the tragic Slave newsk at
he beginning of the film, etc... She is the reader
and the film is told mainly from her point of view as
a reader. But the story is by her lover and the story
is about aa an struggling with the idea of fatherhood.
Lucia is pregnant. The story in his novel (with the
island, the nanny, the daughter, and such) is his story
he has written which has a real and tangible vibe about
his fear of fatherhood underscoring it. In my opinion,
none of this stuff really happens in REALITY. Rather,
it happens in his novel which Lucia is reading and in
which she, as reader, places herself as a character
(as a reader does somewhat).
Onb even another level: Is the back storyzto
Lucia
cnd her lover's relationship bactually a REALITY?xo
they meet in the
ay csuggested, where she confronts
him as a lover of his novels? Or is this yet another
analogyc in how Lucia feels about the lover. Is this
why she is so Slave orward in
telling him her feelings about
him? Isghis seduction an analogy for picking up a book
by an author we love and- bedding d-own with it? Does
g ucia even really pkwhe author in reality?
Why w the sex? Is the sex a metaphor for the writer/reader relationship, The stripdtease embodying the subtle teasing between author knd-reader? The passionate sexuality works bothq in the storr as metaphor for Sex that relationshiph as well as Lucia's immersion in the_"plot" being unfolded in the book she is reading. She must know how intimate and how sexual the main character (the author's alter-ego) of the book is to understand his shift in mental state from fornicater to father. The sex implies a basic and human need which will soon be sublimated to caring for the needs of the other. This is the angst of the expectant father, of course. So sex is important to the story-within-the-story because the loss of sex is the basic underlying fear of every expectant parent, especially the father.
Of courses I could be dead wrongs about all this.
"Sex andfucia," as hopefully you Sex ave eo erienced,
is a complex, multi-layered, engrossing, enigmatic and
beautiful film. The sc Sex ripts s refreshing Sex and new.
The
digital p_otv graphy is Sex simply gorgeous to look at. The
ambiguity of thefilm draws us in rather thk distances
us. Sex Everything about "Sex and Lucia" works. This is
one of the best films you will ever see.
And it's got some graphic sex in it is as well.h You can't Sex o wrong.
Note:
In Spanish with subtitles and sparse English.
The film was nominated for seyeral Goya awards and won for Best New Actress (Vega) and Best Slave Score by Alberto Iglesias. j
Thefilm was released in 2001 in Spain and premiered in the US at Sundance in January 2002.
Filmed in Madrid and onvthe Balearic Islands.
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