| Lucía, Lucía | |
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Promotional poster for Lucía, Lucía |
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| Directed by | Antonio Serrano |
| Produced by | Matthias Ehrenberg Andrés Vicente Gómez Carlos Payán |
| Written by | Antonio Serrano |
| Starring | Cecilia Roth Kuno Becker Carlos Álvarez-Nóvoa 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. |
| Country | Mexico |
| Language | Spanish |
| Budget | MXN$ 30 million (roughly 2.75 million US dollars[1]) |
Lucía, Lucía, also known as La hija del caníbal, is a Mexican film (co-produced with Spain) and the second by Antonio Serrano. The story is based on Spanish journalist Rosa Montero's novel of the same name, 1997 [2] in Spain. The film stars Argentine actress Cecilia Roth (All About My Mother), Mexican actor Kuno Becker (Goal!) and Spanish actor Carlos Álvarez-Nóvoa. 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 La hija del caníbal (literally, "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 in Mexico was MNX$10 million (under a million dollars). In Spain it was released on November 21, 2003 in 100 theaters[3]. In the United States it had a box-office output of USD$269,586 in just 50 theatres. The movie currently takes the spot of the 204th highest grossing foreign film in the United States[4].
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Lucía (Cecilia Roth) a children's book writer, is travelling to Brazil with her husband 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 20 million pesos from her. Her husband frantically tells her to find the money in his aunt's safety deposit box. With the help of her neighbours, a Spanish Civil War veteran (Carlos Álvarez-Nóvoa), and a young musician (Kuno Becker), Lucía sets out to find his kidnappers. She eventually discovers 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 Department of the government and may have possibly faked his kidnapping.
The movie was nominated for the following awards: