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What's Love Got to Do With It? (2022)

What's Love Got to Do With It? poster
Original title
What's Love Got to Do with It?
Directed by
Shekhar Kapur
Genre
romantic comedy film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 49m
Rated
PG-13
Rating
6.1 of 10 from 243 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A documentary filmmaker from London decides to make a film about an old friend who chooses to enter an arranged marriage with a man from Pakistan. She follows his journey as he goes through the process of finding a wife, while she navigates her own complicated love life.

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What happens

What's Love Got to Do with It? is a 2022 British romantic comedy film directed by Shekhar Kapur and written by Jemima Khan. It stars Lily James, Shazad Latif, Shabana Azmi, Emma Thompson, Sajal Ali, Oliver Chris, Asim Chaudhry, Jeff Mirza, Alice Orr-Ewing and Rahat Fateh Ali Khan. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on 10 September 2022, and, at the 17th Rome Film Festival the following month, won Best Comedy (the Ugo Tognazzi award). It was released in the United Kingdom on 24 February 2023 by StudioCanal to positive reviews. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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