Review of Lovelace (2013) by Foxgrove — 27 Aug 2013

Unlike the year's earlier 'The Look of Love', which also dealt with a porn industry icon, Lovelace is actually very informative if a somewhat sanitised and one sided depiction of events in the life of Linda Lovelace of Deep Throat fame.

At a modest 93 minutes there is a lot to pack in and at times scenes seem to end with an exclamation mark to lead us succinctly in to the next chapter of L L's life. The film is very well served by its actors.

Amanda Seyfried has never before given such an accomplished performance, but that being so she is still eclipsed by Peter Sarsgaard as her husband Chuck Traynor who, as painted here, is very much the villain of the piece.

Sarsgaard is breath takingly brilliant and steals the acting honours from a strong line up of character actors with some ease. An unrecognizable Sharon Stone also registers strongly in support as Linda's down trodden mum and the choice of soundtrack and costumes fit the period to perfection.

All in all this is a much better movie than I expected given the luke warm reviews and, on reflection, I feel that it has been rather under rated.