Lucía, Lucía

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 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... more

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 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... less