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• Lovelace

  Kevin Stanley 03 December 2013

  

  Linda Lovelace (whose real name is Linda Boreman) is a 21 year old girl trying to escape the confines of her home life and her strict and overbearing religious parents. She meets Chuck Traynor and just months later they are married. Once married, Traynor introduces Linda to porn and before long he has secured her an audition for a film - which turns out to be Deep Throat. This is the story that the public knew and the girl they adored and lusted over in equal measure.
  
  Directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman handling the proceedings expertly and in the supporting roles that are a host of fantastic character actors including Juno Temple, Hank Azaria and Chris Noth, plus a brief cameo from James Franco as Hugh Hefner.
  
  The film is cleverly spilt into approximately two equal parts of 40 minutes each. The first half depicts a young girl falling in love with and marrying a charming guy who passionately loves her. After just 17 days in the adult film industry she has become the most famous adult film star in the world. Her life is changed, she is famous, ostensibly wealthy and happy.
  
  The second half of the film however presents a different angle on events. Six years after becoming a star Linda would tell the world a completely different, more harrowing, story. It was a heartbreaking story of abuse and survival. The second half of the film tells this story. The true story. Traynor had been controlling the young woman's life from the first time he met her. Forcing her to first perform sexual acts on him and then forcing her in pornography. Even more horrific Traynor had sickeningly forced Linda into prostitution where she was raped and sexually abused by multiple men at the same time. Linda had unsuccessfully on more than one occasion tried to escape Traynor and his abuse but even her own family had refused to take her back, possibly not understanding the severity of the matter or possibly simply turning a 'blind eye' to their daughter's plight leaving her to deal with her own problems as they were too religious and/or too embarrassed by the direction their daughter's life had taken.
  
  Amanda Seyfried takes on the challenging role of Linda Lovelace, and whilst the sexual scenes are handled carefully, thankfully leaving most of the worst events to the viewer's imagination, she still has to handle several emotionally difficult scenes. She is fearless in the role, from naive, young, beautiful girl to a survivor of abuse. Peter Sarsgaard is Chuck Traynor and is equally fearless in a different way, first portraying a charmer, then an aggressive, scary abuser.
  
  The film perhaps doesn't go into as much detail as it might. It feels a little lightweight considering the severity of the subject matter, but it is still a compelling, expertly directed and brilliantly acted film.

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play. Amanda Seyfried stars in this biopic based on the life of the eponymous '70s porn star. A year after an unplanned pregnancy forces her to move back into her parents Florida home, 19-year-old Linda Boreman (Seyfried) falls under the spell of manipulative local bar owner Chuck Traynor (Peter Sarsgaard), and ends up marrying him shortly after. Traynor, however, quick to exploit an opportunity, soon produces a private film of Linda performing various sex acts that comes to the attention of porn director Gerry Damiano (Hank Azaria). Liking what he sees, the director immediately casts her, now under her new stage name of Linda Lovelace, in his latest release, 'Deep Throat'. But although the film becomes the most successful porn movie in history, Linda soon realises that she has become a pawn in the game, as she begins to suffer increasingly violent abuse and exploitation at the hands of her husband.

Amanda Seyfried stars in this biopic based on the life of the eponymous '70s porn star. A year after an unplanned pregnancy forces her to move back into her parents Florida home, 19-year-old Linda Boreman (Seyfried) falls under the spell of manipulative local bar owner Chuck Traynor (Peter Sarsgaard), and ends up marrying him shortly after. Traynor, however, quick to exploit an opportunity, soon produces a private film of Linda performing various sex acts that comes to the attention of porn director Gerry Damiano (Hank Azaria). Liking what he sees, the director immediately casts her, now under her new stage name of Linda Lovelace, in his latest release, 'Deep Throat'. But although the film becomes the most successful porn movie in history, Linda soon realises that she has become a pawn in the game, as she begins to suffer increasingly violent abuse and exploitation at the hands of her husband.