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Review: Lucia, Lucia (**)
LUCIA, LUCIA
A film review by Steve Rhodes Copyright 2003 Steve Rhodes RATING (0 TO ****): ** LUCIA, LUCIA (LA HIJA DEL CANIBAL), by writer and director Antonio Serrano, is a frantic film that will either have you following the madcap adventure with excitement or leave you at the station. I never cared about the wild and wacky characters, even if they did talk a mile a minute with boundless energy. The movie seemed more interested in getting to the next plot turn than in telling a coherent and compelling story. As the movie begins, a middle-age woman named Lucía (Cecilia Roth) has just lost her husband. About to get on a plane with her, he disappears. Soon, however, Lucía gets good news. Her husband didn't vanish on his own. He was kidnapped. And the news gets better still. The obscenely large ransom of twenty million pesos that the kidnappers are demanding happens to be just exactly the amount that her husband has stashed away in a safety deposit box that she didn't know he had. The long middle section of the story has Lucía, aided by her newfound friends Félix (Carlos Álvarez-Novoa) and Adrián (Kuno Becker), trying without much luck to hand off a large suitcase filled with the cash. Félix is an old revolutionary, who, at various times, trained with Castro and fought against Franco. His long-winded ramblings quickly become tiresome. Adrián is a twentysomething hunk who likes to quote the Bible, Thomas Jefferson, ancient Greek philosophers and just about everyone. His quotes are usually just slightly off-topic but fun nonetheless. As the editor flitted from shot to shot with spastic delight, I became increasingly less interested in the picture. This much can be said in the movie's favor -- the acting is all good. It is everything else that is the problem. LUCIA, LUCIA runs 1:40. The film is in Spanish with English subtitles. It is rated R for "sexuality, language and brief drug use" and would be acceptable for teenagers. The film is playing in nationwide release now in the United States. In the Silicon Valley, it is showing at the Camera Cinemas. Web: http://www.InternetReviews.com Email: ************************************************** ********************* Want free reviews and weekly movie and video recommendations via Email? Just send me a letter with the word "subscribe" in the subject line. |
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