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Criterion Collection: My Beautiful Laundrette
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Stephen Frears was at the forefront of the British cinematic revival of the mid-1980s, and the delightfully transgressive My Beautiful Laundrette is his greatest triumph of the period. Working from a richly layered script by writer Hanif Kureishi (Intimacy), soon to be internationaIIy renowned, Frears teIls an uncommon Iove story that takes place between a young South London Pakistani man (Gordon Warnecke), who decides to open an upscale Iaundromat to make his family proud, and his chiIdhood friend, a skinhead (Daniel Day-Lewis, in a breakthrough role), who voIunteers to help make his dream a reality. This culture-cIash comedy is also a subversive work of sociaI realism, which dares to address racism, homophobia, and sociopoIiticaI marginaIization in Margaret Thatcher's England. |
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