My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)
It’s an enormous pleasure to see a movie that’s really about something, and that doesn’t lay on any syrupy coating to make the subject go down easily. ” Time Magazine
TPH celebrates pride month with the 40th anniversary of Stephen Frears radical MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE.
A Pakistani Briton renovates a rundown laundrette with his male lover while dealing with drama within his family, the local Pakistani community, and a persistent mob of skinheads.
‘It was the film that gave great impetus not only to the career of Daniel Day Lewis but also to its director Stephen Frears, who’d actually made a couple of good films before this but this was the one that hit. Written by Hanif Kureishi, the British born writer of Pakistani descent it’s delicious and ironic and critical in the way the Pakistani community is represented in the London of Margaret Thatcher.’ – Margaret Pomeranz
- Rating
- M
- Duration
- 98 MINS