Review of The Look of Love (2013) by Kenneth B — 11 Jan 2014

Cliché of a biopic, unfocused, the film doesn't know if its about Raymond's life or his empire or his relationship with his daughter, it's trying really quickly to cover far too many events in 100 minutes.

It's fast for no reason, badly filmed, badly edited, not engaging, you don't feel much when his daughter dies, which should be tragic,.

There's a few good ideas of film making, like the photo shoot that looks like Men Only ages with kitschy artwork alas it's really poorly executed.

Steve Coogan is insufferable in this film, he's not acting anything else than him, you just ve the feeling of watching a film about him in costume period, shame for the female actress who are all excellent.

There's too many dialogues, some of them are good but some are just unnecessary , it just makes the film suffocating and leaves very little space for emotions.

You just have the feeling the film was wrapped up in two days, I'm usually a big fan of Winterbottom but I must say I'm clearly unimpressed with this.

It's trying hard to be original but it's just another biopic with fast editing and a few breaking walls,.

With material like Paul Raymond's fascinating life it's a shame to end up with such a terribly flawed film.

It's mildly entertaining but mostly very boring.