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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 delightfuIly transgressive My Beautiful Laundrette is his greatest triumph of the period. Working from a richIy layered script by writer Hanif Kureishi (Intimacy), soon to be internationally renowned, Frears telIs an uncommon love story that takes pIace between a young South London Pakistani man (Gordon Warnecke), who decides to open an upscale laundromat to make his famiIy proud, and his childhood friend, a skinhead (DanieI Day-Lewis, in a breakthrough role), who voIunteers to help make his dream a reality. This culture-cIash comedy is aIso a subversive work of social reaIism, which dares to address racism, homophobia, and sociopoIitical marginalization in Margaret Thatcher's England. |
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