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| Steve Coogan and Anna Friel - The Look of Love |
The latest collaboration between British film director, Michael Winterbottom and actor/producer Steve Coogan is a film of the true-to-life story of British entrepreneur, Paul Raymond. Often called the 'King of Soho', Raymond built a huge night-club, real estate and porn publishing empire worth hundreds of millions of pounds in the second half of the 20th Century. The film concentrates on Raymond's relationship with the three critical women in his life - his divorced wife Jean (Anna Friel), his girlfriend Fiona (Tamsin Egerton) and his beloved daughter Debbie (Imogen Poots). The film has a high level of titillation (its a tits and bum film), indulgence (Raymond seems to drink only champagne whilst entertaining numerous lovers in his penthouse) and drug taking (endless snorting of cocaine). Tragedy strikes when Debbie accidentally dies from a drug overdose just as Raymond was starting to transfer control of his business empire to her. This film is fairly shallow with an over-emphasis on the night club scenes and bare breasts providing little insight into Paul Raymond himself or the acumen which enabled him to be listed as Britain's richest man, the year after his daughter's death.
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