The Look of Love Page #7

Synopsis: After the untimely death of his daughter, Paul Raymond reflects on his life. Rising from a mind-reading act, Raymond grew to have a fabulously successful career as an erotica magnate that would make him the richest man in Britain. However, for all his material success, Paul's appetites mess up his personal life, such as alienating his wife with his philandering. Furthermore, even as he challenged his society's sexual mores, Paul's relationship with his daughter proves troublingly problematic as she came of age. While trying to be the best father he could, Paul gradually comes to realize that his proclivities have impoverished him in ways that mere money cannot address.
Production: IFC Films
  1 win & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.0
Metacritic:
57
Rotten Tomatoes:
53%
NOT RATED
Year:
2013
101 min
$217,933
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# And know that I love you

# Anyone who ever dreamed

# Could look at me

# And know I dream of you

# Knowing I love you so

# Anyone who had a heart

# Would take me in his arms

and love me, too

# You couldn't really have

a heart and hurt me...

Pa?

Pa?

Are you all right?

I don't know.

Oh, dear.

Did Fiona send you?

No, she didn't.

You haven't got

a temperature or anything.

I just feel old.

I don't think you're old.

Oh, Pa. You can't just lie here

and feel miserable all day, can you?

Yes.

No.

Come on. You're getting up.

And we're going out!

You're going to feel much better.

I'll get you some clothes.

Come on, you're Paul Raymond.

You're not Geoffrey bloody Quinn.

Let's have some caffeine, first of all.

And then let's go and

have some champagne.

Go to L'Escargot for dinner,

and we'll go out to a club

and we'll have lots and lots

and lots of fun.

Just what the doctor ordered.

Did you hear that, Chris?

I'm afraid it's going to be

a late one tonight.

Good, I've been missing them.

It's just beautiful

at night-time.

Everything looks beautiful

at night-time.

No, this.

This is beautiful.

Henry Vlll used to use this

area as his hunting ground.

And "Soho" was his battle cry.

- So-ho.

- So-ho, you know.

So-ho.

So-ho!

Sorry.

So-ho!

I own all of you!

Well, actually, the Queen

owns the pavement, darling.

No. Soho!

Anything else, Mr Raymond?

I think the magazine

needs a revamp.

It's a little old-hat and I think

we need to make some changes.

- Do you have any big changes in mind?

- Yes.

Yes, I think we need to,

er... fire Fiona.

What are you two doing sitting

here like two wallflowers?

I know what you're thinking.

"Her father's come to pick her up. "

But, no, I'm here under

my own volition.

I am here to dance.

He is actually here to pick her up.

Les girls.

- Yeah.

- Whoo!

We're looking for new beautiful girls

and we were wondering if you knew any.

I'm kidding, I'm kidding.

You're very, very beautiful, all of you.

Sexy ladies!

You wouldn't think I was 35.

I'm here to tell you about

the re-launch of Men Only.

Paul, how do you think Fiona feels

about getting the sack?

I don't know how she felt. Um...

All I know is it's, of course,

always unpleasant

when you have to fire somebody.

Is Men Only gonna become

more pornographic?

It is not pornographic and it

will never be pornographic.

Is Men Only degrading to women?

No, it is not.

Oh, that's fabulous.

Yeah, that's good.

That's great.

Think it could be a

little more Sapphic?

He wants you to just lick her.

Turn round, Nicole, go down and...

That's it, yes!

You're doing a great job, girls.

Let's have a quid pro quo.

Huh?

- He means, um, the other way...

- Do it for each other.

Yeah, do it for each other.

Little more sensual.

Can we get some, uh, Vaseline?

Yeah.

We don't want the jar in the shot.

Yeah, that's it.

Excellent, yeah.

I do like the blue shoes.

I really like them.

- I want Tony to get me some.

- Whatever colour, I don't mind.

I don't normally see the colour.

They're usually behind my head.

- What, on a shelf?

- No.

No, I can feel 'em,

I just can't see 'em.

- Do you like these, Chloe?

- I think it'd look better maybe

if there was two blondes, though,

instead of the brunette.

I'm blond, we'll do it with me.

We could always do two blondes

and then you in the middle or something.

- You like that idea, Tony?

- No.

- I do.

- You see,

she knows which side

her bread's buttered.

And it wouldn't just be the bread

that's buttered.

Oh!

Have you seen

"Last Tango In Paris?"

- I haven't.

- Pass the butter.

Pass, pass... Pass the butter.

Hey, pass the butter.

And the Worcester sauce.

Wouldn't the Worcester Sauce sting?

Precisely.

No, he wouldn't use a

word like that, would he?

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, you got it.

Something like that.

Hello.

Ward... Ward West 8.

- Straight up there on the right.

- Thank you.

- He knows what he's doing?

- Yeah...

Um, excuse me,

I'm looking for Deborah Raymond.

- Oh, she's just through there, sir.

- Thank you.

Hello. You must be Jonathan.

Yes. And you are?

- Paul...

- Raymond.

Precisely.

Is she all right?

Uh, yeah, she's, er, sleeping at the moment.

They gave her something.

So, um, what happened?

Enlighten me, please.

I heard a crash so I

went to have a look.

Um, I found Debbie.

Her boyfriend lives

in my block of flats.

Um, and she looked pretty messed-up

so I, er... brought her here,

you know.

Well, thanks. Thank you.

Hi.

Good evening.

Have you met Jonathan, Pa?

Yeah, we have been speaking, yes.

You know he rescued me,

like a knight in a fairy tale?

Yeah. Sounds like you're

severely concussed.

He writes songs.

He's going to write a song

for me to sing.

That's the plan.

It's kismet.

I thought there was already

a song called Kismet.

What songs have you written?

Uh, mainly jingles for commercials.

I'm very good friends with the Beatles,

apart from Yoko.

Ringo actually designed

my, er, apartment.

Cool.

I thought you were going to be

a theatre impresario like your Pa.

- What's happened with that?

- Oh, I'm gonna do that as well.

You know, I can do whatever I like

because I'm feeling lucky.

Six, take one.

Some people will say you're

only able to produce this play

because your father

is Paul Raymond.

Pa's renting the theatre to us

for a thousand quid a week.

# You and I have found a world

# Where dreams will come true

I could just sit around eating cake

because I'm Paul Raymond's daughter,

but that's not my way, really.

I'm... I'm a worker.

Debbie is a very hard-working

professional producer.

There's no doubt in my mind that...

Women Behind Bars

will be a huge success.

#... together, you and I...

That's fantastic. Just some,

uh, technical issues our end,

but you're sounding great.

'Cause people like you are like the

slime at the bottom of the shower stall.

After a while, it gets so thick

all the Dutch cleanser in the world

can't get it off.

If you don't love me,

you don't love everybody.

I'd like to propose a toast

to my new impresario

and my always-gorgeous leading lady.

- Cheers.

- Cheers.

I'd like to propose a toast of my own

to...

marriage and to Jonathan.

Thank you.

- Good evening, Mr Raymond.

- Now, this is Jean.

America suits you.

Your tan's almost as deep as mine.

I'd have said it's

twice as deep, actually.

- You like my hair?

- Yes, very nice.

It's got a sort of a...

a Myra Hindley effect.

Say what you like about her,

you know, she was a looker.

So, Howard, are you missing home?

America's more like home for me.

America's a big market

for us now.

- Mmm.

- Isn't it?

Tony's doing a really fantastic job.

He's really making quite a fortune

- which is great for us. So...

- It's great. Yeah.

- Yeah.

- Yeah.

He's sort of like a son to Pa.

Howard, er... has made

no secret of the fact

he's not particularly interested

in the business.

- Not like you, Debbie, is he?

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Matt Greenhalgh

Matthew Greenhalgh is an English screenwriter from Manchester. He is best known for writing the screenplay to the film Back to Black and Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool, which earned him a BAFTA Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay. more…

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