Lucía, Lucía

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Lucia, Lucia is also a 2003 novel by Adriana Trigiani.


Lucía, Lucía

Promotional poster for Lucía, Lucía
Directed by Antonio Serrano
Produced by Matthias Ehrenberg
Andrés Vicente Gómez
Carlos Payán
Written by Antonio Serrano
Starring Cecilia Roth
Kuno Becker
Carlos Alvarez-Novoa
Javier Díaz Dueñas
Margarita Isabel
Max Kerlow
Mario Iván Martínez
José Elías Moreno
Héctor Ortega
Enrique Singer
Music by Nacho Mastretta
Distributed by LolaFilms
20th Century Fox (USA and Argentina)
Release date(s) January 17, 2003 Mexico (July 11, 2003 USA)
Running time 109 min.
Language Spanish
Budget MXN$ 30 million (roughly 2.75 million US dollars[1]
IMDb profile
The Mexican poster
The Mexican poster

Lucía, Lucía (La hija del caníbal) is a Mexican film (co-produced with Spain) and the second by Antonio Serrano. The story is based on the novel of Spanish journalist Rosa Montero that was awarded the "Primavera de Novela" award in Spain in 1997. The film is starred by Argentine actress Cecilia Roth (All About My Mother), Mexican actor Kuno Becker (Goal) and Spanish actor Carlos Alvarez-Novoa. The cinematographer is Xavier Pérez Grobet (Total Recall, Before Night Falls)

The movie was filmed over a period of eight weeks in and around Mexico City, as well as at the Puebla airport and the Sierra Gorda of Querétaro. In the United States the film was released under the name Lucía, Lucía, since the producers thought the name of La hija del caníbal ("The cannibal's daughter") would lead audiences to believe the story was about a cannibal.

This movie was not as successful as Serrano's first film Sexo, Pudor y Lágrimas. Its box-office output inn Mexico was MNX$10 million (under a million dollars. In Spain it was released on November 21, 2003 in 100 theaters [2]. In the United States it had a box-office output of USD$269,586 in just 50 theaters. The movie currently takes the spot of the 204th highest grossing foreign film in the United States [3].

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The novel
The novel

The movie was nominated for the following awards:

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

[edit] Plot

Lucía (Cecilia Roth) a children's book writer, and her husband, were on their way to Brazil on vacation, when her husband disappears after going to the airport bathroom. She later learns that he was kidnapped by a group called the People Workers Party that wants 120 million Pesos from her, or he will be killed. Her husband frantically tells her to find the money in a safety deposit box that was his aunt's. With the help of her neighbors, a Spanish Civil War veteran (Carlos Alvarez-Novoa), and a young musician (Kuno Becker), set out to find his kidnappers and learn about the truth about his disappearance after learning from the police that her husband is accused of being part of an elaborate embezzlement scam from within the Treasury Deparment of the government and may have possibly faked his kidnapping.

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