In Jemima Khan's ‘What's Love Got to Do With It,’ starring Lily James, the traditional fairy tale has become obsolete.
, the traditional fairy tale has become obsolete. The protagonist, Zoe Stevenson , is a documentary filmmaker whose romantic failures and perennial singledom mean that she’s often being asked to babysit her friend’s children. To get them to sleep she tells them revamped fairy tales, which invariably become pessimistic commentaries on the failings of modern love.
Khan wrote the film inspired by the decade she spent living in Pakistan as the wife of cricketer turned politician. While living in Lahore with Imran’s extended family, she was able to observe many successful arranged marriages at close quarters. “I don’t believe that there’s one right way to find love, but I do believe that it’s really easy to kind of demonize other people’s way of doing it,” she says.
Khan, a journalist and film producer who describes herself as equal parts cynic and romantic, moved back to Britain in 2004, when her marriage ended. Still just 30, she found herself surrounded by friends her own age who were looking to settle down and find partners to have children with. “I kind of became the Pakistani auntie,” she says.
The answer is—as far as the film is concerned—that there’s no way of knowing what will work out. Indeed, in Khan’s cross-cultural romance, directed by, the pursuit of love becomes something of an existential burden, an assignment so necessary and yet so fraught with danger that it has spawned an entire industry of clichés and matchmaking methodologies.
Muslims and non-Muslims; those with assisted marriages and those with love marriages; those who swipe right on dating apps and those who engage professional matchmakers—all are more similar than different in Khan’s simmering meditation on the universality of one of life’s most essential pursuits. “I don’t have any solutions, just reflections,” says Khan.
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