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Dir. Stephen Frears
Year. 1985
Country: UK
Run-time: 98 mins
Rating: 15
Doors: 4.30pm Film: 5pm
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With Stephen Frears at the helm and scripted by Hanif Kureishi, My Beautiful Laundrette remains one of the key films of 1980s British cinema. Delightfully transgressive and richly detailed, it charts the love story between Omar, a young British-Pakistani man (Gordon Warnecke) who opens an upscale laundrette to satisfy his family, and his childhood friend Johnny (Daniel Day-Lewis, in a breakthrough role) who offers to help make his dream a reality. Both subversive social realism and comedic culture-clash, the film confronts racism, homophobia and marginalization in 1980s England.
“timely, provocative and unique... corners touchy issues more than it flinches them.”
“the strength of the film is its vision - cutting, compassionate and sometimes hilarious”
“A refreshingly forward-thinking piece of work.. both a cultural landmark and a good watch... it’s the guts of this idiosyncratic story that captures what London life is all about. ”
“(A film) about the possibility of opening up views, of being able to see through a window out of your own life and into other possibilities. You can accept your class, social position, race, sexuality or prejudices as absolutes, and live entirely inside them. Or you can look out the window, or maybe even walk out the door.”
