Anyone who’s seen the extremely entertaining, Who’s Afraid Of Vagina Woolf will already be familiar with Anna Margarita Albelo giant vagina! In that movie Abelo’s wannabe filmmaker has ended up dancing around in a vagina costume rather than being the big-shot director she was hoping to be.
The short film Vagina Is The Warmest Color was made to help promote Who’s Afraid of Vagina Wolf?, and also to critique the Palme d’Or winning Blue Is the Warmest Color, a movie Abelo wasn’t that impressed with. As Buzzfeed points out, ‘She [Abelo] was thrilled to see a lesbian love story getting so much attention, but nonetheless disappointed that the object of all this attention was another film about lesbian misery. “That’s why at the end of Vagina, I say, ‘Fuck you.’”’
She also says she found the much talked about sex scenes in Blue Is The Warmest Color exploitive, and mirrored that which a much more unsual sex scene in her short film – which also involves the vaginal costume.
Take a look at the short below and then head over to Buzzfeed to find out a bit more.
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Nice ploy for attention. The film Blue is the Warmest Color is based on a graphic novel by a lesbian, and it’s far more depressing than the film was – including a character death the film wisely side-stepped. Don’t blame the movie, it had nothing to do with that. I also don’t see the sex scenes in the film as exploitative (the graphic novel was also graphic), you can’t talk about teen love and adolescence without talking about sex. It’s such an American hangup, this idea that it can’t be talked about. The movie was great. A dumb costume and cheap video isn’t.