My Beautiful Laundrette
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Why watch?
“That we now have a newly laundered 40th Anniversary restoration of this groundbreaking, successful, iconic and career-making film is both welcoming and timely given the, ahh… current state of British society. The film’s narrative themes and concerns are still something our country seems to be unable to discuss with caring, understanding, humour and intelligence, whilst it instead lets division run rampant.”
Robb Barham,
Operations & Programme Manager
Hyde Park Pick: My Beautiful Laundrette
Badnam Basti
In a seedy corner of London, Omar (Gordon Warnecke), a young Pakistani man, is given a run-down laundromat by his uncle (Saeed Jaffrey), and hopes to turn it into a successful business. Soon after, Omar is attacked by a group of racist punks, but defuses the situation when he realises their leader is his former lover, Johnny (Daniel Day-Lewis). The men resume their relationship and rehabilitate the laundromat together, but various social forces threaten to compromise their success.
The first screening on Fri 01 Aug at 15:30 will be shown with a pre-recorded introduction by actor Gordon Warnecke (Omar) and director Stephen Frears.
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Screening as part of the Cinema Rediscovered on Tour.
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Free bubbles will be available for bookers while stocks last.
Details
“a Molotov cocktail of urban chaos, polemical ire, spiky comedy, and mixed-race queer sex into the so-called British Film Renaissance of 1984–86.”
Criterion
“The strength of the film is its vision -- cutting, compassionate and sometimes hilarious -- of what it means to be Asian, and British, in Thatcher's Britain”
Time Out
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