2013 · comedy · drama
The Look of Love
Directed by Michael Winterbottom1h 45m2013
Paul Raymond builds a porn, entertainment and real estate empire that makes him the wealthiest man in Britain, but drugs doom his beloved daughter, Debbie.
Our read: The Look of Love (2013) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded comedy · drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- sombre
- bleak
- cold
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