SEX LUCIA
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Sex and Lucia
By Julio Meden 2001
The movie Sex and Lucia by Julio Meden is postmodernist because it contains subjectivity and multiple narrations.
We can see these characteristics in the following scenes:
Lucia is a young waitress in a restaurant in the center of Madrid. She receives a call from her boyfriend Lorenzo, he sounds troubled and desperate because he does not want to hurt Lucia. She goes to the apartment looking for Lorenzo but he is not there. It is nighttime and she does not know where he has gone. Then she receives a phone call from the police while reading a farewell note from her boyfriend. She drops the phone thinking that Lorenzo has died and runs away to seek refuge on a quiet, secluded Mediterranean Island.
The movie then flashes back to six years and the man, Lorenzo, is meeting with his agent to talk about his latest book, based on the experiences he had in the opening scene. Two lovers have romantic anonymous sex in the moonlight waters of the Mediterranean. They agree not to tell each other their names, just a few pieces of fragmentary information...