Lucía, Lucía

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

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name =Lucía, Lucía


caption = Promotional poster for "Lucía, Lucía"
imdb_id = 0314170
writer = 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
director =Antonio Serrano
producer = Matthias Ehrenberg
Andrés Vicente Gómez
Carlos Payán
music = Nacho Mastretta
distributor = LolaFilms
20th Century Fox (USA and Argentina)
released = January 17 2003 Mexico (July 11 2003 USA)
runtime = 109 min.
language = Spanish
movie_series_label=
movie_series =
awards = Nomination to Ariel, two nominations to MTV Movie Awards
budget = MXN$ 30 million (roughly 2.75 million US dollars [ [http://www.cnca.gob.mx/cnca/nuevo/2002/diarias/ene/210102/canibal.htm] ]

"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 Spanish journalist Rosa Montero's novel of the same name, 1997 [ [http://www.espasa.com/nuevaweb/ganadores_historico13.htm "Primavera de Novela" award winner] ] 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 [ [http://www.contactodvd.com/articulos/lucia-lucia-o-la-hija-del-canibal Lucía, Lucía o La Hija del Caníbal ] ] . 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 [ [http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=lucialucia.htm Lucia, Lucia (2003) ] ] .

Plot

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 120 million Pesos from her, or he will be killed. 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.

Awards

The movie was nominated for the following awards:
* Ariel Award in 2004 from the Mexican Academy of Film for "Best Adapted Script" (Antonio Serrano)
* MTV Movie Awards-Mexico for:
** "Favourite Actor" (Kuno Becker)
** "Best Song" (Kinky's "Caníbal").

References

External links

* [http://web.archive.org/web/20050313103430/http://www.cinemania.com.mx/year2003/01ene/fichas/fich_hija_canibal.htm Profile] on the Cinemania website.
* [http://www.noticine.com/noticine/images_ftp/album/hijacanibal.htm Photos from the making of the film] .