Lipstick Soundtrack LP
Lipstick.
1976, Columbia.
Michael Polnareff.
Atlantic, LP, 1976, SD 18178.
Rating: 
This glossy thriller stars Margaux Hemingway as a model of lipstick who is attacked and raped by a rejected fan and then ‘raped again’ in court as her profession is put on the stand. Entertaining enough, Lipstick suffers from its overly flashy production values, looking like a TV movie with pretentions to be something far more political; both Clint Eastwood’s ‘Play Misty For Me’ (1971) and ‘The Accused’, (1988) starring Jodie Foster use the subject matter far more effectively. Michel Polnareff’s score is a brief (running at under thirty minutes) but spirited collection of disco inspired action cues. Side One, titled ‘Lipstick’ features two tracks, the Main Title (‘Lipstick’) and ‘Lipstick Montage’, which combines the major themes. Side Two, entitled ‘The Rapist’, presents the darker elements of the score in keeping with the subject matter. However, it is the lightweight disco material that wins out as there is little about this movie, or the soundtrack, that makes anything more than a superficial stab at a serious critique of how society deals with rape and the victims of it.
Lipstick Movie Soundtrack. Review: Tim Mowbray.
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