Address: sugar caper
artists: Lily James, Shazad Latif, Emma Thompson, Nikkita Chaddha
Year: 2022
Premiere: 17 March 2023
★★
This Lead couple of the first movie directed by Shekhar Kapur for more than ten years two different ways of understanding love and marriage. Depends on dating apps; The Pakistani descent decided to find the woman of his life with a pre-arranged wedding. They’ve loved each other for years but won’t admit it because otherwise there would be nothing to tell here.
“And what does love have to do with it?” romantic comedy with arranged marriage formulaand this is an unbalanced confrontation; Rather than exploring conflicting traditions and cultural clashes, Kapur tries to keep the two characters separate for as long as possible, while borrowing plots from titles like ‘My Best Friend’s Wedding’ or ‘When Harry Met Sally’. ‘.
By the way, the movie is about swimming and removing clothes. On the one hand it shows conscious humor about the stereotypes of the genre to which it belongs to justify its public use; On the other hand, yes, it does fall into the same sort of simplification of cultural differences it tries to ridicule, if not at least demonstrating the moral superiority that Western “mainstream” cinema tends to display over practices that don’t fit. their prejudices.