Rio Hayward All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Blake Rivera If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Marva-nova Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

Jay Harris LUCIA,LUCIA is just as the summary says, I was laughing in all the right places,Antonia Serrono wrote & directed this in fine style.There are 3 major characters played by 3 wonderful actors. Cecelia Roth (star of Almodavar films) is at her luminous best.She plays Lucia (late 40's) still sexy. Carlos Alvarez-Nova is an elderly neighbor (with strange past). & new comer Kumo Becker (mid 20's) & very sexy., The 3 of them team up in the farce about a kidnapped husband,ransom money, drugs, car chases, Beautiful mountain scenery..Some very good sex scenes, Many laughs throughout but thankfully no stupid slapstick. There are fun & not so much fun characters.This is somewhat similar to comedies by Bunel BUT nowhere in that league, just a crazy mixed up patch-quilt, That I & hopefully you will laugh your way through.ratings ***1/2 (out of 4) 95 points (out of 100) 4 (out of 10)

Claudio Carvalho On 30 December, in the airport of Mexico City, the husband of Lucia (Cecilia Roth) vanishes a few minutes before the last call to the flight to Rio de Janerio, where they are going to see the reveillon in Copacabana. Lucia goes to the police to report the disappearance, and back home, she is mainly supported by two neighbors, the seventy years old Félix (Carlos Álvarez-Novoa) and the young man Adrián (Kuno Becker). Together, they look for Lucia's husband, in a journey of friendship, love and self-discovery for Lucia. Alternating the reality and the imagination of the character of Lucia, who is the narrator of the story, "La Hija del Cannibal" is a delightful, intriguing and original tale. The mysterious story is very unpredictable, and includes a tough critics to the corruption of the Mexican government. Cecilia Roth is excellent and very charming, as usual, very well-supported by Carlos Álvarez-Novoa and Kuno Becker. I liked this movie a lot and highly recommended as a very fresh screenplay. My vote is seven.Title (Brazil): "Aos Olhos de Uma Mulher" ("Through the Eyes of a Woman")

JCEFalconi I avoided seeing this movie for a long time, simply because I was tired of being let down by bad mexican cinema. After seeing the huge marketing campaign behind it and noticing that it had the same director/writer of Sexo, Pudor Y Lagrimas, I decided to give it a shot. Big mistake, this is a mess of a movie, the plot, the dialogue, the paper thin characters. Not one of the elements that made Sexo, Pudor Y lagrimas translated, the only thing that remained were the preachy monologues and overall pretentiousness.

pifas Is this a comedy fueled with drama or viceversa? La hija del caníbal is the second effort for Antonio Serrano, the man behind the "successful" movie Sexo, pudor y lágrimas -but only because the money earned with it says so-, and sadly to say, it's not a good one. Based on a novel by writer/journalist Rosa Montero, La hija... tells the story of a middle age woman whom, all of a sudden, has lost track of her husband. Vaguely, the plot is about the crisis that affects women when they turn in their forties; and I mean real vaguely just because this film never goes deeper than the surface of the matter. Once again Serrano has put on film his own vision of what something or someone SHOULD look like, not searching what's really going on inside the character or situation. At least in most of the movie the director left behind it´s yuppie like panomaric and pretentious tricks and talk he used for his debut, but also, he got himself trapped in a maze in which he couldn't find a wiser way to get out of it; even though he had already a plot.It´s not so lame, but isn't that good either. I think the main problem with it is the sense of flatness all over the story. There's no passion -in actors or director-, and when you expect for the plot to go in crescendo, it maintains the same level leading you into risky stages of nearly boredom, saved only because some support roles comes to scene and gives some air to it. The film delays on it's take off and once it does (but in a poorly manner), the audience spends a hard time trying to get really involved mainly because of the events and how they are treated, and lead by the circumstances that surrounds the narrative, anyone should expect for a true climax. And that it's something that never happens.Magic surrealism it's not a word for being used in here but neither is a crude reality, the execution in a whole it´s almost childish, and the only one worth to look at is spaniard actor Álvarez-Novoa, but he's performing almost the same role he has done before in Solas -by the way, a superb film-; anything else is just like a half done puzzle, where you can guess the figure but never admire it complete. This is not a good effort, but at least Serrano is shaking off him a perspective of a pretentious México full of contrasts in the cool or intellectual guy, but, ironically, that's exactly what intrigues me; to what kind of audience is this film intended? I don't think people who loved Sexo, pudor y lágrimas is gonna run to see it because this one it´s more down to earth, and the thriller freaks won´t find it amusing because of it's lack of real suspense. Maybe it's only for soap opera watchers. Let´s just wait for what's coming next from Serrano.