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The Colour of Your Lips

Name: The Colour of Your Lips
Director: Annick Blanc
Released: 2019
Duration: 17 min

Representation Score

6.2/10

Good

2019

Director

Annick Blanc

Runtime

17 minutes

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New Showbiz Analysis

Annick Blanc’s film is a sophisticated exploration of identity and bodily autonomy set within a speculative, high-stakes environment. By centering queer desire and women's ability to drive the story, the film examines how identity functions under pressure. The work excels at deconstructing traditional romantic clichés, shifting the focus from male-driven conflict to a study of sexual ability to act. This allows the characters to drive the narrative through their internal psychological landscapes. While the film is progressive in its treatment of gender and sexuality, it remains limited by a homogeneous cast. The focus on a specific, localized identity politics results in a lack of broader racial and ethnic diversity.

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Category Breakdown

Does The Colour of Your Lips have LGBTQ+ representation?

Excellent

The film focuses on same-sex attraction and identity fluidity, exploring these themes through a queer-centric lens rather than relying on including someone from a minority group without giving them real depth.

How does The Colour of Your Lips portray gender?

Excellent

The narrative emphasizes women's intellectual autonomy and ability to act, subverting traditional patriarchal hierarchies by focusing on their roles rather than their relationships to men.

How racially and ethnically diverse is The Colour of Your Lips?

Fair

The cast remains relatively homogeneous, reflecting a localized Montreal setting. It does not explicitly center racial the way different parts of someone's identity overlap within its primary character arcs.

How does The Colour of Your Lips represent religion and culture?

Good

The story prioritizes individual empowerment and lived experience over traditional religious or cultural norms, emphasizing personal liberation.

Does The Colour of Your Lips include disability representation?

Minimal

There are no prominent depictions of disabilities that serve as central narrative drivers in this work.

Present on Screen

Centers queer identity and non-straight relationships as fundamental narrative drivers.
Subverts traditional patriarchal hierarchies by prioritizing women's ability to act and intellectual autonomy.
Uses a speculative setting to explore complex themes of sexual ability to act and identity.

Limited or Absent

Lacks broader racial and ethnic diversity within its primary character arcs.
Maintains a relatively homogeneous cast that reflects a limited demographic scope.

Official Synopsis

In an atmosphere grown suddenly impossible to breathe, a diver and a woman appear to be the only survivors. As their reserves of air run out, will they make love or war?

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