( positive ) refreshing and delightful and sexy . move and think provoke movie from spain . not really porn ( a the title might suggest ) although there be some very artistic explicitness . it be movie like this one that remind u that european cinema can scale the emotional dilemma and mountain of a story where other film look at a storyline in term of physical development . lucia and a young waitress in madrid and fall completely in love with a writer . after a period of blissful togetherness and something from his past pull him in two direction . we be catch up in his moral dilemma and of not want to lose the wonderful gift he have find and yet not want to be untrue to himself . the semi autobiographical novel he be write pull together the story and the emotion and hope of the character and introduces idea that enable them to heal some of their hurt . a central idea be that of find a hole ( symbolically on the sandy beach ) where and after reach the end of the story and you can jump back into the middle . that way you can try an make thing turn out well ( if you give me time and say lorenzo and lucia boyfriend . ) a more mature and round work than the director earlier lover of the arctic circle and sex and lucia combine wonderful acting and a great story and innovative cinema and spine tingly beautiful photography . one of my favourite film of the year .