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Sex and Lucia (; lit. Lucía and the Sex) is an award winning 2001
Spanish films of 2001

A list of films produced in Spain in 2001 in film.2001External links* at the Internet Movie Database...
 Spanish
Cinema of Spain

The art of motion-picture making within the nation of Spain or by Spanish filmmakers abroad is collectively known as Spanish Cinema.In recent years, Spanish cinema has achieved high marks of recognition as a result of its creative and technical excellence....
 drama film
Drama film

A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth characterization of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, crime and corruption put the characters in conflict with themselves, others, society and even natural phenome...
, written
Screenwriter

Screenwriters or scenarists are scriptwriters who write the screenplays from which films and television programs are made.Most screenwriters start their careers writing on speculation....
 and directed
Film director

A film director, or filmmaker, is a person who directs the making of a film. A film director visualizes the Screenplay, controlling a film's artistic and dramatic aspects, while guiding the technical crew and actors in the fulfillment of his or her vision....
 by Julio Medem
Julio Medem

Julio M?dem is a Spain Basque people writer and film director.Medem was born in San Sebasti?n, Basque Country and showed an interest in movies since childhood, when he would take his father's Super 8mm film camera and shoot at night, while nobody was paying attention....
, and starring Paz Vega
Paz Vega

Paz Campos Trigo , better known as Paz Vega, is a Spain actor....
 and Tristán Ulloa
Tristán Ulloa

Trist?n Ulloa is a Spain actor, writer, and director.He was born in Orleans to a Spanish mother and father exiled in France. He has appeared in numerous films, notably Luc?a y el sexo , a 2001 Spanish drama film, written and film director by Julio M?dem, with Paz Vega....
. As suggested by the title, there is significant sexual content. The movie features a highly a non-linear story line with repeated surreal references to the ocean.

movie opens with Lorenzo (Tristán Ulloa
Tristán Ulloa

Trist?n Ulloa is a Spain actor, writer, and director.He was born in Orleans to a Spanish mother and father exiled in France. He has appeared in numerous films, notably Luc?a y el sexo , a 2001 Spanish drama film, written and film director by Julio M?dem, with Paz Vega....
) having casual sex in the ocean with a woman named Elena (Najwa Nimri
Najwa Nimri

Najwa Nimri is a Spain actress and singer....
).






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Sex and Lucia (; lit. Lucía and the Sex) is an award winning 2001
Spanish films of 2001

A list of films produced in Spain in 2001 in film.2001External links* at the Internet Movie Database...
 Spanish
Cinema of Spain

The art of motion-picture making within the nation of Spain or by Spanish filmmakers abroad is collectively known as Spanish Cinema.In recent years, Spanish cinema has achieved high marks of recognition as a result of its creative and technical excellence....
 drama film
Drama film

A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth characterization of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, crime and corruption put the characters in conflict with themselves, others, society and even natural phenome...
, written
Screenwriter

Screenwriters or scenarists are scriptwriters who write the screenplays from which films and television programs are made.Most screenwriters start their careers writing on speculation....
 and directed
Film director

A film director, or filmmaker, is a person who directs the making of a film. A film director visualizes the Screenplay, controlling a film's artistic and dramatic aspects, while guiding the technical crew and actors in the fulfillment of his or her vision....
 by Julio Medem
Julio Medem

Julio M?dem is a Spain Basque people writer and film director.Medem was born in San Sebasti?n, Basque Country and showed an interest in movies since childhood, when he would take his father's Super 8mm film camera and shoot at night, while nobody was paying attention....
, and starring Paz Vega
Paz Vega

Paz Campos Trigo , better known as Paz Vega, is a Spain actor....
 and Tristán Ulloa
Tristán Ulloa

Trist?n Ulloa is a Spain actor, writer, and director.He was born in Orleans to a Spanish mother and father exiled in France. He has appeared in numerous films, notably Luc?a y el sexo , a 2001 Spanish drama film, written and film director by Julio M?dem, with Paz Vega....
. As suggested by the title, there is significant sexual content. The movie features a highly a non-linear story line with repeated surreal references to the ocean.

Plot

The movie opens with Lorenzo (Tristán Ulloa
Tristán Ulloa

Trist?n Ulloa is a Spain actor, writer, and director.He was born in Orleans to a Spanish mother and father exiled in France. He has appeared in numerous films, notably Luc?a y el sexo , a 2001 Spanish drama film, written and film director by Julio M?dem, with Paz Vega....
) having casual sex in the ocean with a woman named Elena (Najwa Nimri
Najwa Nimri

Najwa Nimri is a Spain actress and singer....
). They part ways, expecting to never see each other again.

The next scene has Lucía (Paz Vega
Paz Vega

Paz Campos Trigo , better known as Paz Vega, is a Spain actor....
) at work as a waitress, taking time off to attend to Lorenzo after a disconcerting phone call with him. Upon arriving home, Lucía looks frantically for Lorenzo, finally receiving a phone call from the police who mention that Lorenzo has been involved in a car accident. Looking for perspective, Lucía decides to travel to the mysterious island where Elena and Lorenzo met.

The movie breaks to six years earlier. Lucía waits for Lorenzo at a restaurant. Upon catching his attention, she reveals curtly that since reading his book she has been shadowing him, hopelessly in love. An interested Lorenzo pursues the relationship. As the past plays out, we see Lorenzo repeatedly stalling for time on his new book to his editor while Lorenzo and Lucía's relationship deepens. Lorenzo learns that he has a daughter as a result of his encounter with Elena and begins to visit the child at her school while meeting her babysitter Belén (Elena Anaya
Elena Anaya

Elena Anaya is a Spain actor whose career dates back to 1995.Anaya was born in Palencia, Spain. She first received international attention in 2001 for her role in the sexually explicit drama Luc?a y el sexo and also appeared in Pedro Almod?var's Hable con ella ....
). Lorenzo uses his new encounters as content for his book. Lucía reads it, thinking it to be fiction.

In the present, Lucía meets a scuba diver on the island, Carlos (Daniel Freire
Daniel Freire

Daniel Freire is an Argentina film actor.He entered film in 1993 in Un Muro de silencio and has appeared in over 15 films including Las Aventuras de Dios 2000 in which he portrayed Jesus Christ and Arizona Sur in 2004....
), and through him, Elena, who becomes her landlady. As the past is revealed the characters cope
Coping (psychology)

The psychological definition of coping is the Process of managing taxing circumstances, expending effort to solve personal and interpersonal problems, and seeking to master, minimize, reduce or tolerate Stress or conflict....
 with its significance in the present and understand the entanglements of their interwoven relationships.

Reaction

The film soon became an international success, winning Paz Vega
Paz Vega

Paz Campos Trigo , better known as Paz Vega, is a Spain actor....
 a Goya Award
Goya Awards

The Goya Awards, known in Spanish language as los Premios Goya, are Spain's main national film awards, considered the Spanish equivalent to the American Academy Awards....
 (the Spanish equivalent to the American Oscar) for Best Female Newcomer.

See also

  • List of mainstream movies with unsimulated sex, body doubles were used for Paz Vega and Tristán Ulloa, although it is unclear in exactly which scenes.


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