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The two rekindle the romance between them and manage Omar’s uncle’s laundrette, but various social issues stand in their way of success. Our take Working from Hanif Kureishi’s Academy Award®-nominated screenplay, Stephen Frears’s portrait of life in Thatcher-era London proved a film far ahead of its time: bold in its ambitious ...
Nov 19, 2004 · NPR's Neda Ulaby reviews the DVD re-release of the low-budget Stephen Frears masterpiece My Beautiful Laundrette, which made a star out of Daniel Day-Lewis. The film has lasting power, but ...
My Beautiful Laundrette is transgressive in many ways, but mostly in the dizzying array of tensions it sets its sights on — racial, ideological, class, generational, and gender — an ambitious quality that can, admittedly, overwhelm at times. But ambition is an admirable flaw for a film to have, particularly one as sharp and groundbreaking ...
My Beautiful Laundrette. 1h 37m 1985. Overview; ... International Film Festival August 1985. ... Special Events/ The Bloomberg Tribute to Stephen Frears) September 7 ...
The two rekindle the romance between them and manage Omar’s uncle’s laundrette, but various social issues stand in their way of success. Our take Working from Hanif Kureishi’s Academy Award®-nominated screenplay, Stephen Frears’s portrait of life in Thatcher-era London proved a film far ahead of its time: bold in its ambitious ...
Dec 1, 2015 · We shot it in six months, on a £600,000 budget, entirely on location, using a row of shops in Vauxhall for the launderette and its surrounds. For the home of Papa – Omar’s alcoholic dad ...
My Beautiful Laundrette proved to be such a hit when it was screened at the Edinburgh Film Festival that it was subsequently given a national, and then international, cinema release. It was not only a major commercial success but proved to be one of the most critically acclaimed British films of the decade, as well as a classic of gay cinema.
