Overview
A dreamlike journey through the blurred lines of reality and imagination awaits you.
Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Brisk
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Dense
- Violence
- Mild
- delirious
- dreamy
- paranoid
- late night viewing
- mind bending movie night
What critics said
Critics broadly praised Lucia as an inventive, entertaining Kannada film that expands conventional storytelling while retaining affection for cinema's older traditions.
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
Nikki's insomnia and dream life blur the boundary between his ordinary existence and an alternative reality.
The plot is filtered through hallucination, lucid dreaming, and Nikki's unstable experience of reality.
Nikki works as an usher in a decrepit cinema, while the film foregrounds the relationship between movies, dreams, and storytelling.
Lucia is identified as Kannada cinema's first crowdfunded film and is presented as an independent landmark.
Films like Lucia, and why
Inception
shared dream-reality ambiguity, psychological mystery, and unreliable perception
The Matrix
shared dual-reality structure, altered consciousness, and reality-bending thriller mechanics
Fight Club
shared insomnia, subjective perception, urban alienation, and psychologically unstable narration
Andhadhun
shared Indian independent-cinema sensibility, nonlinear mystery, and emotionally charged reality shifts
Movie Details
- Director
- Pawan Kumar
- Release Date
- 2013-10-19
- Runtime
- 136 min
- Rating
- 7.2 / 10 (61)
Cast
- Sathish Ninasam
- Sruthi Hariharan
- Achyuth Kumar
- Hardika Shetty
- Balaji Manohar
- Poornachandra Mysuru
- Lalipalya Mahadev
- Pawan Kumar
- Narayan Bhat
- Rishab Shetty
Where to watch in United States
- Streaming
- Sun Nxt
Streaming options come from TMDB and change over time.
Common questions
- What is Lucia about?
- An insomniac cinema usher enters a delirious maze where wondrous dreams begin to rival the waking world.
- What is Lucia like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Lucia as brisk, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as dense.
- Is Lucia violent?
- Only mildly. Ember rates the violence in Lucia as mild.
- What did critics think of Lucia?
- Critics broadly praised Lucia as an inventive, entertaining Kannada film that expands conventional storytelling while retaining affection for cinema's older traditions.
- Which films are like Lucia?
- Films with a similar feel include Inception, The Matrix, Fight Club, and Andhadhun.
- How long is Lucia?
- Lucia runs 136 minutes.
- Where can I watch Lucia?
- In United States, Lucia streams on Sun Nxt.
