What's Love Got to Do with It?

Shekhar KAPUR, who shot the two ELIZABETH films with Cate BLANCHETT, is once again presenting a new film.

A London documentary filmmaker (Lily JAMES) is stunned when she learns that her neighborhood Pakistani treehouse boyfriend (Shazad LATIF) wants to enter into an arranged marriage. She persuades him to make a documentary out of his search for a bride. The wedding with a beautiful woman (Sajal ALY) is coming up soon in Lahore...

Seen often and not really dramatic: Western courtship behavior in the style of Tinder collides with traditional Pakistani-style matchmaking. How does that turn out? This will probably soon become apparent to cinema-goers. There are also dance performances in the style of Bollywood, but they don't come close to the original.

The typifications of the characters are well done. This is occasionally quite funny, albeit clichéd. Oliver CHRIS as a veterinarian and the entire family of Pakistani origin are definitely convincing. Grandiose as always is ACADEMY AWARD winner Emma THOMPSON (awarded in 1993 for HOWARD's END and in 1996 for SENSE AND SENSIBILITY) as the documentary filmmaker's mother. She plays just great, but her character is also particularly annoying. The cliché of a socially active "do-gooder" that you can only endure because it is "performed" by OSCAR winner Emma THOMPSON!

You can watch it, but it's no loss if you miss the film!