Lucia, Lucia Movie Review 2003

Middle-aged Lucia (Roth) is the unreliable narrator of this Mexican fable. Lucia's husband, Ramon (Moreno), disppears in the Mexico City airport. Since their marriage was unhappy, maybe he decided to abandon her, or maybe Ramon was kidnapped. Since the police are no help, Lucia turns to two neighbors for assistance--Felix (Alvarez-Novoa), an elderly Spanish Civil War veteran, and young and handsome Adrian (Becker). There's a botched ransom drop and Ramon's exposure as an embezzler and Lucia's tryst with Adrian and many, many red herrings. Maybe Lucia is just spinning one big tale (she turns out to be a writer). And maybe it just doesn't matter. Adapted from the novel "La Hija del Canibal" by Rosa Montero. Spanish with subtitles.

Distribution

Fox Home Entertainment, PO Box 900, Beverly Hills, CA 90213, Phone: (310)369-3900, Toll-free: 888-223-4FOX, Fax: (310)369-5811, URL: http://www.foxmovies.com/index1.html, Remarks: Also known as Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 113 minutes.
Originally from Mexican, Spanish.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Marriage, Mexico, Women, Writers

Screenplay

Antonio Serrano

Cast

Cecilia (Celia) Roth, Carlos Alvarez-Novoa, Kuno Becker, Jose Elias Moreno, Margarita Isabel, Javier Diaz Duenas, Hector Ortega

Cinematography

Xavier Perez Grobet

Director

Antonio Serrano

Music

Nacho Mastretta

Other

Evelia Cruz, Jorge Garcia, Brigitte Broch, Mariestela Fernandez

Producer

Epigmenio Ibarra, Carlos Payan, Inna Payan, Christian Valdelievre, Matthias Ehrenberg, Titan Productions, Lola Films, Argos Communications, Total Films, Fox Searchlight