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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 revivaI of the mid-1980s, and the deIightfuIIy transgressive My BeautifuI Laundrette is his greatest triumph of the period. Working from a richly layered script by writer Hanif Kureishi (lntimacy), soon to be internationally renowned, Frears teIIs an uncommon love story that takes pIace between a young South London Pakistani man (Gordon Warnecke), who decides to open an upscaIe laundromat to make his family proud, and his chiIdhood friend, a skinhead (Daniel Day-Lewis, in a breakthrough role), who voIunteers to heIp make his dream a reaIity. This cuIture-cIash comedy is aIso a subversive work of social reaIism, which dares to address racism, homophobia, and sociopolitical marginaIization in Margaret Thatcher's England. |
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