Below Her Mouth

Below Her Mouth is about sex. That’s about it.

The story follows Jasmine, who has a fiance and Dallas, an androgynous, power-top dream girl. Despite Jasmine’s friends saying multiple times how incredibly faithful she is, when she meets Dallas, all that faithfulness goes out the window. Over the course of a few days while Jasmine’s fiance is away, the two women have a bunch of very satisfying sexual encounters along with the occasional conversation. However, the fiance returns and Jasmine must make the choice between the safe, heterosexual male love interest and the woman she hardly knows but has explosive sexual chemistry with.

Below Her Mouth is a sexy movie. It’s fully of nudity and sex scenes and is shot in a way that makes it clear the audience is supposed to find this all attractive. What makes Below Her Mouth so different from other films involving beautiful women being naked together is that this one really seemed geared towards queer women as opposed to men.

The character of Dallas is the most obvious example that this movie is for queer women. Dallas is a lesbian dream girl which is a much different type of woman that dream girls for straight men. It is not Jasmine, who is more traditionally feminine looking who the cinematography cues its viewers into lusting over the most. Instead, it’s Dallas, who is more masculine in personality and appearance.

When it comes to nudity in Below Her Mouth, there is a general lack of fragmentation which makes me really happy. When women are naked onscreen in lots of movies, the camera will often zoom in on the actress’s body thus breaking them down into physical components. This also robbing them of identity by not having their face in the shot. Below Her Mouth avoids this. The nudity is usually shown in medium or wide shots which allows the actresses to retain their identity. I really like this because I am personally attracted to women who are shown to have entire bodies and also faces.

The sex scenes in Below Her Mouth are possibility the hottest I’ve seen in a WLW movie. They’re really well blocked, choreographed and acted. Below Her Mouth also easily clears the hurdle of knowing how two women have sex. That already makes it better than a lot of WLW movies. The activities these women engage in aren’t ones that might look good for the camera but wouldn’t bring pleasure if attempted in real life, they’re all actual sex moves. I can’t believe the bar is that low in WLW movies that it’s something to be applauded but there you are.

The characters also have conversations about how to touch each other or what brings them pleasure and I love that. Communication is important with sex and so many movies take that aspect out. In general, the sex scenes in this movie come across as not only the characters actually appearing to have great sex but it’s also sex that’s genuinely possible to have in the real world.

Where the movie loses me is basically every aspect other than the sex. The story in Below Her Mouth is just not strong. I didn’t care much in the first act before these characters started sexing each other. I also found myself bored in the third act when they’ve stopped sexing each other. As it turns out, I don’t care much about these characters when they’re not engaged in sex scenes that appeal to me personally.

Their relationship is also a hard sell. Jasmine gets tempted into infidelity far too fast. Infidelity is hard to stomach for me and this one happens really fast. It’s also clearly just based in physical attraction, not some deep mental connection. When they do engage in conversations that are allegedly “deep,” it’s mostly a mix of exposition and fairly surface stuff. Dallas says Jasmine is different and their connection is special but really, all that happens is they had great sex which doesn’t seen unusual for Dallas. I just don’t buy this allegedly extraordinary connection these characters have that is apparently so enormous that Jasmine can justifying flagrantly cheating on her fiance.

Basically if you wanna see this movie for lesbian sex, it’s worth it. If you’re neutral to negative on that aspect though, this movie has nothing else to offer you. The story is weak, the pacing is poor and the acting can be a bit iffy. None of that takes away from how scorching the sex scenes are. But personally, I’d like a more well-rounded movie as opposed to one that’s just really good at one thing and fails at everything else.

Overall rating: 5.9/10

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