[18+] Sex And Lucia

Perhaps our confusion is part of the whole idea, but Sex and Lucia would have a lot more impact if there were someone to give a damn about.

It's a thoughtful film that forces its characters and its viewers to wrestle with the difference between great sex and true intimacy.

While it's being the told, the story of Sex And Lucia is sufficiently seductive to keep you from noticing the holes forming in its universe.

It's a hall of mirrors, this flick -- every one of them pretentious.

What distinguishes Julio Medem's humid, magic-realist eroticon from the average soft-core fare is its writer-director's playful interest in storytelling as a form of sexual sublimation and release.

A lot rides on coincidence. Or fate. Or the magic pull of the moon. It all makes sense in the end.

A bizarre, alternately joyful and gloomy take on sexual fantasies and complications. [Blu-ray]

...a confusing and at times silly erotic film with some interesting visual ideas.

Don't go in expecting Eurotrash art-porn, for the film tells a beautiful and earnestly romantic story.

Not every movie that is billed as 'erotic' deserves that distinction, but director Julio Medem's Sex And Lucia certainly does. It's the kind of intelligent, thoughtful film about sex and love that Hollywood just can't make.

As a randy film about sexy people in gorgeous places being pushed and pulled (literally and figuratively) by desire ... [Sex and Lucía] makes for an arousing good time.

Sex ironically has little to do with the story, which becomes something about how lame it is to try and evade your responsibilities and that you should never, ever, leave a large dog alone with a toddler. But never mind all that; the boobs are fantasti