Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

I might be new to IMDb but as a lifelong cinema lover, I feel compelled to write my comments some two decades later. Paz Vega is the dame of Spanish art films like this one. Why should anybody be bothered by nudity I can't fathom , as it is done in a really , funny bordering on hilarious manner. As I understand Spanish, I feel lucky not to be dependent on the subtitles as some translations seemed edited to me. It is a heady film that feels like a lot of thinking has to be done by the viewer while having too much of that good wine, enjoying the sunset and reading a script upside down. Marvelous.

One thing that can never be said about "Sex and Lucia" is that it's not interesting. It has a unique look and feel, more than almost any Spanish film I've seen, and also some very memorable and enticing scenes. The first thirty minutes work quite well as a slightly surreal relationship-based drama. The more it goes on, though, the more the plot twists and turns, and as much as I wanted to believe that it was all leading up to something, or that there was a substantial layer of subtext, I found myself not caring too much, and I got a strong feeling that Medem was deliberately making it more obscure and incoherent than it has to be for the sake of creating an artistic visage to cover for the fact that he didn't really have anything much to say.Some films bend and break genre conventions to create truly fascinating art; some films decide to ignore plot and coherency in favor of atmosphere and symbolism. "Sex and Lucia", unfortunately, doesn't do any of that. It does have quite intense atmosphere, and probably some layers of symbolism I couldn't be bothered to look for, but it just failed to capture me in any meaningful way. I was impressed with all the elements - gorgeous shots, good dialog and excellent acting - but it doesn't come together to create a real film, and it's too long and too heavy-handed to be enjoyed merely as a collection of individual scenes. Worst of all, it's not even about Lucia, nor is it about sex. It's about unlikable Lorenzo and figuring out what on earth Lucia sees in him. That's almost as big a mystery as what the film is actually about.

I watched Sex and Lucia ten years ago and liked it a lot. Time and the downward progress of mainstream cinema has been kind to Julio Medem's masterpiece. I watched it again recently and realised how underrated this film is. Lovers of the Arctic Circle is Medem's most easily appreciated work. It offers a straightforward story of love, fate and happenstance. Sex and Lucia is very different and much, much deeper. The sex of the title and the sex on screen inevitably confuse an American audience stuck in the 17th century of their pilgrim forbears. For the rest of us, this film is a revelation, a feast of sensual magical realism and intellectual mystery. It's also quite, quite beautiful and deeply moving. English language filmmakers, American and British, take note. This is cinema.

For a north American who usually watches N.A. candy like movies, which are usually visually pleasing but hollow in the script, this one is a very nice surprise.I'll give a 10/10 for the movie - script, director's performance, cinematic effects, castings (kudos to Elena Anya - she should shoot more serious movies like this one than Hollywood movies like Van Helsing), editing. The sex scenes are explicit but necessary to tell the story honestly, so it's sex scenes in good tastes. p.s. Vicky Cristina Barcelona seemed to be a N.A. version of this one but like suggested earlier before, this movie got more complexity, originality & layers - thus more enjoyable.