lack of angle, no layers and textures of characters, a waste of good chance.

Coogan + Winterbottom = Bronze (this time).

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The life of Paul Raymond, the controversial entrepreneur who became Britain&apos;s richest man.

Michael Winterbottom

The Look of Love

An interesting look into the life of someone I knew nothing about

I didn&apos;t know what to expect from The Look of Love. I like Steve Coogan so gave it a shot. In my opinion it&apos;s well worth a watch. 

The film is a biopic about Paul Raymond played fantastically by Steve Coogan. For those unfamiliar, like I was before seeing TLOL, Paul Raymond was an entrepreneur who owned a lot of property and strip clubs in London and was at one point Britain&apos;s richest man. It&apos;s amazing how such a rich guy can go so unheard of, with people my age anyway, yet have such a big empire in London just years ago. S&apos;pose they&apos;re not going to teach you about the strip clubs and nudey plays in second year history at school. It made for some really interesting watching.

And not because of the more or less constant boobs in case that&apos;s where your mind immediately went there. There is admittedly more graphic nudity in this film than I&apos;ve ever seen in a film ever but because there is so much of it you kind of get used to it. The novelty of &apos;tee hee, boobies&apos; fades away pretty quick to make way for a pretty fascinating life story.

My journalism lecturer always said there&apos;s nothing more interesting than writing about a famous person &apos;on the slide&apos; out of fame and power and there&apos;s certainly a lot of &apos;sliding&apos;here. He lives such an extravagant lifestyle with the drugs and ever changing woman you know it&apos;ll all catch up with him some day. The whole second half that looks at the unusual relationship between him and his spoilt daughter is pretty captivating. To give you a taste of what their relationship is like, there&apos;s a scene where Paul catches his daughter snorting coke. Instead of telling her off and getting angry he insists she mustn&apos;t just buy her drugs off the street and to only do the very best. It&apos;s a look into a life of excess and irresponsibility which makes for an intriguing watch.

There are a lot of British actors , mostly comedians, in the film.There&apos;s actually so many big British names it&apos;s almost distracting. There&apos;s Coogan obviously who naturally steals the show. But then there&apos;s cameos from Stephen Fry, Simon Bird, David Walliams, Matt Lucas, Dara O&apos;Briain - the list goes on. All do a good job, even if some are only in it for a matter of seconds, but celebrities like Dara O&apos;Briain don&apos;t really come across as fully fledged characters. It just takes you out the film for a few seconds and makes your brain announce &apos;oh look, it&apos;s him from Mock The Week&apos;.

I don&apos;t like to talk about cinematography too much as I&apos;m a complete novice but I could tell it&apos;s good here. Parts where they talk about Paul Raymond&apos;s men-only magazine feel like you&apos;re actually flicking through a 70s style dirty mag. The fashion of the time is very prominent with bright zig-zagging colours in his clubs and houses sucking you into the era nicely.

It might not be for everyone is a possible problem- 3 people walked out of our screen halfway through due to what I assume was it&apos;s increasing amount of graphic porn scenes. Similarly big action, life changing drama fans may feel a little underwhelmed. If you show a bit of interest and follow the relationship between Raymond and his daughter however you&apos;ll find this film to be a surprising little gem.

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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I didn't know what to expect from The Look of Love. I like Steve Coogan so gave it a shot. In my opinion it's well worth a watch. 

The film is a biopic about Paul Raymond played fantastically by Steve Coogan. For those unfamiliar, like I was before seeing TLOL, Paul Raymond was an entrepreneur who owned a lot of property and strip clubs in London and was at one point Britain's richest man. It's amazing how such a rich guy can go so unheard of, with people my age anyway, yet have such a big empire in London just years ago. S'pose they're not going to teach you about the strip clubs and nudey plays in second year history at school. It made for some really interesting watching.

And not because of the more or less constant boobs in case that's where your mind immediately went there. There is admittedly more graphic nudity in this film than I've ever seen in a film ever but because there is so much of it you kind of get used to it. The novelty of 'tee hee, boobies' fades away pretty quick to make way for a pretty fascinating life story.

My journalism lecturer always said there's nothing more interesting than writing about a famous person 'on the slide' out of fame and power and there's certainly a lot of 'sliding'here. He lives such an extravagant lifestyle with the drugs and ever changing woman you know it'll all catch up with him some day. The whole second half that looks at the unusual relationship between him and his spoilt daughter is pretty captivating. To give you a taste of what their relationship is like, there's a scene where Paul catches his daughter snorting coke. Instead of telling her off and getting angry he insists she mustn't just buy her drugs off the street and to only do the very best. It's a look into a life of excess and irresponsibility which makes for an intriguing watch.

There are a lot of British actors , mostly comedians, in the film.There's actually so many big British names it's almost distracting. There's Coogan obviously who naturally steals the show. But then there's cameos from Stephen Fry, Simon Bird, David Walliams, Matt Lucas, Dara O'Briain - the list goes on. All do a good job, even if some are only in it for a matter of seconds, but celebrities like Dara O'Briain don't really come across as fully fledged characters. It just takes you out the film for a few seconds and makes your brain announce 'oh look, it's him from Mock The Week'.

I don't like to talk about cinematography too much as I'm a complete novice but I could tell it's good here. Parts where they talk about Paul Raymond's men-only magazine feel like you're actually flicking through a 70s style dirty mag. The fashion of the time is very prominent with bright zig-zagging colours in his clubs and houses sucking you into the era nicely.

It might not be for everyone is a possible problem- 3 people walked out of our screen halfway through due to what I assume was it's increasing amount of graphic porn scenes. Similarly big action, life changing drama fans may feel a little underwhelmed. If you show a bit of interest and follow the relationship between Raymond and his daughter however you'll find this film to be a surprising little gem.

The life of Paul Raymond, the controversial entrepreneur who became Britain's richest man.

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