What to watch: The Trace of Your Lips
A sexed-up drama exploring our need for intimacy during the Covid-19 pandemic.
How hardcore can a movie about the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown be? You’re about to find out. Some might say that 2023’s The Trace Of Your Lips is a little late to the game (after all, K.J. Apa showed his ass in a 2020 pandemic movie, Songbird) but we think it’s right on time. There’s never a bad moment to release a movie that features hardcore gay sex complete with bumholes, erections, and a daddy snapping a condom off of his penis after pleasing his bottom.
This explicit gay movie comes to us from Mexico, and turns the 2020 lockdown into an opportunity for hardcore gay action. Even we're a little scandalized here. The Trace Of Your Lips centers on two neighbors who develop an attraction for each other during the height of the COVID-19 lockdown. They're so close, yet so far - only able to connect via video calls.
Aldo (Mauricio Rico) is an essential worker who can leave his apartment, while his crush next door Román (Hugo Catalán) is a B-movie actor who is out of work due to social distancing. Catalán is a total daddy, and Rico uses his imagination to get banged by Catalán - picturing the two of them going at it so hard that he cums on his windowsill!
The two men find pleasure outside of their passion for one another. Mauricio Rico and Pocholito Tamayo show their buttholes while having sex, and Hugo tops Luis Vegas in a separate encounter, even pulling off his used condom afterward on camera. These talented actors have these scenes… on lockdown.
Review: The Trace of Your Lips
Written and directed by Julián Hernández, The Trace of Your Lips - La huella de unos labios - is a sexed-up drama exploring our need for intimacy during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Set in Mexico, the action revolves around two men - Román (Hugo Catalán) and Aldo (Mauricio Rico).
As the pandemic unfolds around them, Román and Aldo - isolated in their apartments - make an online connection and virtually explore their need for intimacy.
The sexual tension is palpable, as the dystopian world brought on by the virus becomes too much for everyone to bear.
This is an engaging film, and Mauricio Rico is particularly compelling as Aldo, but I'm not sure that audiences are ready to revisit the Covid-19 years in this way. Maybe it's just me - I'm not ready to revisit the Covid-19 years in this way.
The Trace of Your Lips is distributed by TLA Releasing