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My Beautiful Laundrette

Name: My Beautiful Laundrette
ISBN: 9780857715005

Turner Classic Movies British Film Guide

Christine Geraghty,

128 pages
English
PDF
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eBook - PDF

My Beautiful Laundrette

Turner Classic Movies British Film Guide

Christine Geraghty,

About this book

Described by Stuart Hall as 'one of the most riveting and important films produced by a black writer in recent years', My Beautiful Laundrette was a significant production for its director Stephen Frears and its writer Hanif Kureshi. Omar, member of a Pakistani family 'getting ahead' in 1980s Thatcher's Britain is charged to make over a rundown launderette, and in the process falls in love with the brooding Johnny (Daniel Day Lewis in career-making form). Christine Geraghty interrogates My Beautiful Laundrette as a crossover film: between television and cinema, realism and fantasy, and as an independent film targeting a popular audience. She deftly shows how it has remained an important and watchable film in the 1990s and early 2000s and her exploration of the film itself is a remarkable, original and entertaining achievement.

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