Below Her Mouth

Below Her Mouth is a 2016 Canadian erotic romantic drama film directed by April Mullen and written by Stephanie Fabrizi. The film stars Natalie Krill as Jasmine and Erika Linder as Dallas, two women in Toronto who meet and begin a passionate love affair.[2] The cast also includes Tommie-Amber Pirie, Mayko Nguyen, Elise Bauman, Melanie Leishman and Sebastian Pigott.

Below Her Mouth
Directed byApril Mullen
Produced byMelissa Coghlan
Written byStephanie Fabrizi
Starring
Music byNOIA
CinematographyMaya Bankovic
Production
company
Serendipity Point Films
Distributed byGunpowder & Sky
Release date
  • September 10, 2016 (2016-09-10) (TIFF)
Running time
92 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish
Box office$36,240[1]

Plot

Set over three days, the film follows two very different women who fall in love with each other. Jasmine is a successful fashion editor living with her fiancé in Toronto. On a Friday night while out in the city with her best friend Claire, Jasmine meets Dallas, a female roofer recently out of a relationship. Surprised by the confidence with which the two very different women connect, Jasmine becomes infatuated with the mysterious woman who is working with a crew on the house next door to Jasmine's. The chance meeting soon turns into desire that ignites in Jasmine when she becomes more acquainted with Dallas which leads Jasmine to accompany Dallas to her low-rent loft where the two women soon engage in passionate sex. As much as Jasmine struggles with her feelings over being sexually involved with another woman, she fears her tryst with Dallas might ruin her engagement with her fiancé should it ever become known.

Cast

Production

The film was shot in Toronto over a period of three and a half weeks in 2015 with an all-female production crew, and subsequently premiered at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival,[3] followed by a simultaneous release in the United States on April 28, 2017.[4]

Reception

On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 22% based on reviews from 27 critics, with an average rating of 4.5/10.[5] On Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating, it received an average score of 42 out of 100, based on 9 reviews from mainstream critics, indicating "mixed or average".[6]

Critical response

Diego Semerene of Slant Magazine gave the film 0.5 stars out of 4, writing, "The film is an unquestionably pornographic fantasy barely trying to pass as something other than masturbation material."[7] He added, "Below Her Mouth's stiff acting and dialogue suggest a misguided Blue Is the Warmest Color influence reduced to the sexy aesthetics of lesbian sex but completely oblivious to that which actually animates the film's impossibly beautiful, unbearably smooth, and perpetually horny bodies."[7] Guy Lodge of Variety described it as "a sexually frank but narratively flimsy girl-meets-girl romance that never gets under its gorgeous characters' amply exposed skin."[8] Frank Scheck of The Hollywood Reporter called it "an undeniably steamy effort that delivers plenty of heat in its sex scenes, while falling significantly short in dramatic terms."[9] Katie Walsh of the Los Angeles Times said: "Despite the female filmmakers at the helm, the film treads into exploitative territory, with the ratio of screen time given to writhing female bodies far outweighing that given to their unique experiences as gay or closeted women in the world."[10] Jude Dry of Indiewire wrote: "What, exactly, is below her mouth? Her chin? Her body? Her entire mind and spirit? It's a fittingly ambiguous title for a directionless film, late night fare that will be enjoyed by just as many horny men as horny teenage lesbians."[11]

Home media

The film was made available as video on demand on Amazon Video on April 29, 2017;[12] followed by Netflix on August 1, 2017.[13]

See also

References
  1. "Below Her Mouth". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
  2. "A few good women: All-female crew a natural fit for provocative indie drama that offers 'honest, simple' perspective of two Toronto women who fall in love". Toronto Star. December 10, 2015.
  3. "TIFF unveils its lineup of Canadian films: Toronto-shot love story Below Her Mouth used an all-female crew". Toronto Star, August 4, 2016.
  4. McNary, Dave (March 9, 2017). "Lesbian Romance 'Below Her Mouth' Gets Release Date From Gunpowder & Sky (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved August 30, 2017.
  5. "Below Her Mouth". Rotten Tomatoes. Flixster. Retrieved 22 August 2017.
  6. "Below Her Mouth". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 22 August 2017.
  7. Semerene, Diego (25 April 2017). "Below Her Mouth". Slant Magazine. Retrieved 22 August 2017.
  8. Lodge, Guy (27 April 2017). "Film Review: 'Below Her Mouth'". Variety. Retrieved 22 August 2017.
  9. Scheck, Frank (28 April 2017). "'Below Her Mouth': Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 22 August 2017.
  10. Walsh, Katie (April 27, 2017). "Steamy drama 'Below Her Mouth' doesn't even buy you dinner first". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved August 30, 2017.
  11. Dry, Jude (May 4, 2017). "'Below Her Mouth' Is What Lesbian Porn Would Look Like If It Were Actually Made By Lesbians — Review". Indiewire. Retrieved August 30, 2017.
  12. "Below Her Mouth". instantwatcher.com. 2017. Retrieved August 30, 2017.
  13. "Below Her Mouth". What's New on Netflix USA. 2017. Retrieved August 30, 2017.
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