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The Look of Love

  • 20132013
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  • 1h 41m
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Steve Coogan, Anna Friel, Tamsin Egerton, and Imogen Poots in The Look of Love (2013)
The story of Paul Raymond, the controversial entrepreneur and property baron who established the Raymond Revue Bar and went on to become BritainÂ’s richest man.
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The life of Paul Raymond, the controversial entrepreneur who became Britain's richest man.The life of Paul Raymond, the controversial entrepreneur who became Britain's richest man.The life of Paul Raymond, the controversial entrepreneur who became Britain's richest man.
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    • Michael Winterbottom
  • Writers
    • Matt Greenhalgh
    • Paul Willetts(based on biographical material from "Members Only: The Life and Times of Paul Raymond")
    • Jean de Letraz(extract from "Pyjama Tops originally titled Moumou")
  • Stars
    • Steve Coogan
    • Matt Lucas
    • Anna Friel
    • Michael Winterbottom
  • Writers
    • Matt Greenhalgh
    • Paul Willetts(based on biographical material from "Members Only: The Life and Times of Paul Raymond")
    • Jean de Letraz(extract from "Pyjama Tops originally titled Moumou")
  • Stars
    • Steve Coogan
    • Matt Lucas
    • Anna Friel
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    • 40User reviews
    • 121Critic reviews
    • 57Metascore
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    Imogen Poots in The Look of Love (2013)
    Steve Coogan in The Look of Love (2013)
    Steve Coogan and Imogen Poots in The Look of Love (2013)
    Michael Winterbottom and Tamsin Egerton in The Look of Love (2013)
    Steve Coogan, Tamsin Egerton, and Chris Wilson in The Look of Love (2013)
    Anna Friel in The Look of Love (2013)
    Anna Friel in The Look of Love (2013)
    Tamsin Egerton in The Look of Love (2013)
    Steve Coogan in The Look of Love (2013)
    Steve Coogan, Chris Addison, and Imogen Poots in The Look of Love (2013)
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    Steve Coogan
    Steve Coogan
    • Paul Raymond
    Matt Lucas
    Matt Lucas
    • Matron Behind Bars
    Anna Friel
    Anna Friel
    • Jean Raymond
    Imogen Poots
    Imogen Poots
    • Debbie Raymond
    Jennifer Ellis
    • Fawn
    Nick Hopper
    • Charles the Chauffeur
    Paul Popplewell
    Paul Popplewell
    • Journalist No. 1
    Jim Clubb
    • Liam Turner
    Sarah Lou
    • Liam Girl No. 1
    Emma Williamson
    • Liam Girl No. 2
    Stephen Fry
    Stephen Fry
    • Barrister
    Kieran O'Brien
    Kieran O'Brien
    • Jimmy Humphries
    Shirley Henderson
    Shirley Henderson
    • Rusty Humphries
    Frankie Thomson
    • Baby Debbie
    Jennifer Gardiner
    • Revue Bar Cigarette Girl
    David Walliams
    David Walliams
    • Reverend Edwyn Young
    Betsy Rose
    • Betsy
    Katie Swatton
    • Revue Dancer No. 1
      • Michael Winterbottom
    • Writers
      • Matt Greenhalgh
      • Paul Willetts(based on biographical material from "Members Only: The Life and Times of Paul Raymond")
      • Jean de Letraz(extract from "Pyjama Tops originally titled Moumou")
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    • Trivia
      The film's working title, The King of Soho, had to be dropped after the threat of legal action by Paul Raymond's son, Howard, who was already developing a project of the same name about his father's life.
    • Goofs
      While discussing the role of a reporter for 'Men Only' magazine the Fiona Richmond character (Tamsin Egerton) refers to female genitalia as "pussy". This term would not have been in use in the 1960s when the film is set. Later in the film the correct English term "fanny" is used.
    • Connections
      References Billy Liar (1963)
    • Soundtracks
      Thunder & Blazes
      Written by Julius Fucík

      Performed by South Shore Concert Band

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    5/10
    Citizen Porn
    Steve Coogan was turned down for the lead in The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, losing out to Geoffrey Rush, and I get the feeling this is his attempts to compensate. It is a biopic with a retro look, encompassing the same era and focused on an oft unsympathetic individual who goes on to neglect his wife and kids.

    The problem is that Sellers was a man of a hundred faces while Paul Raymond seems to have none, he always came across as a deeply uncharismatic, grey little man so instead Coogan pastes his own TV persona onto him. It's not quite Partridge, but we've seen it before in 24 Hour Party People and in things like Tristram Shandy and The Trip, where Coogan plays an unflattering version of himself - sort of narcissistic, insecure, a bit sarcastic and witty, not without flair.

    I didn't mind this in the Tony Wilson biopic, largely because that was played for laughs and also looked outwards to the whole Manchester music scene, but I did mind it here. We really have no clearer idea of Raymond's personality at the end of it - it maybe should have looked at the hangers on a bit more and the world of Soho generally. What's more, the pop music tends to date better than soft porn. For this to be a celebration of the Raymond Revue Bar, you'd have to contrast the buxom babes with the dour, pinched women of the era, starchy Margot Ledbetters and Margaret Thatchers, with hornrimmed spectacles and never a day in the gym. (Not saying the blokes looked much better back then to be fair. A quick look on Google Images reveals that the real Raymond was severely balding even by the mid 1960s, so must have sported a heavy hairpiece for his lothario years.)

    Imogen Poots is poignant as his daughter, and they try to make out she's the same fit as newspaper proprietor Kane's wife, with similar ill-advised showbiz ambitions. Poots gets to sing the title track rather affectingly, the other song on a loop is Anyone Who Had a Heart, so maybe they were going to go with that title for the film at one point. But it's all very broadly written, and too much improvised it seems. Chris Addison impresses as one of the hangers- on, but I couldn't help thinking (due to his look in this) that we'd be better watching a history of Radio 1, with Addison as DLT and Coogan as the odious Jimmy Savile.

    As for other stars, Stephen Fry plays a judge and is in this for less than a minute, David Walliams has a recurring cameo as a lecherous vicar, the sort of role that Terry Scott would have played, but is given no backstory or context to speak of, while Matt Lucas plays a stage character for all of 30 seconds. So don't be fooled by scrolling down the cast list, it's fairly slim pickings and at times it resembles those awful No Sex Please We're British movies of the day. You do get a fair bit of sex, with coke snorting atop many a bare breast, so it's not one to watch with the folks, but I can't say it's quite as erotic as I'd like, maybe because tastes have moved on since then.
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    • clivey6
    • Apr 29, 2013

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      • July 7, 2013 (United States)
      • United Kingdom
      • United States
      • Film Four (United Kingdom)
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    • Production companies
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      • Baby Cow Productions
      • Film4
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