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My Beautiful Laundrette is set within the Asian community in South London during the Thatcher years, and displays those values of money but 'anybody can make it.'. Omar gains the running of his uncle Nasser's laundrette. He is helped by his friend Johnny who is an outsider, white but not entirely accepted by either the white or Asian Londoners.
Stephen Frears was at the forefront of the British cinematic revival of the mid-1980s, and the delightfully transgressive My Beautiful Laundrette is his greatest triumph of the period. Working from a richly layered script by Hanif Kureishi, who was soon to be an internationally renowned writer, Frears tells an uncommon love story that takes place between a young South London Pakistani man ...
The Forgotten: Meat is Murder. In a (dis)United Kingdom overwhelmed by greed, a cannibal restaurant becomes the latest craze in Eat the Rich (1987). During a street fight, Omar bumps into his former lover Johnny. The two rekindle the romance between them and manage Omar’s uncle’s laundrette, but various social issues stand in their way of ...
7 de sept. de 1985 · 这篇影评可能有剧透. 美丽的洗衣店，美丽的心灵：记丹尼尔·戴·刘易斯电影《我美丽的洗衣店》 1985年出品的英国电影《My beautiful laundrette》（中译名《我美丽的洗衣店》，又名《我可爱的洗衣房》）是一部动人的同志题材影片。
7 de mar. de 1986 · British-born, half-Pakistani playwright and novelist Hanif Kureishi won an Oscar nomination for his screenplay for My Beautiful Laundrette, which was originally filmed for BBC television. Kureishi collaborated again with director Stephen Frears on Sammy and Rosie Get Laid.
A movie like this lives or dies with its performances, and the actors in "My Beautiful Laundrette" are a fascinating group of unknowns, with one exception: Shirley Anne Field, who plays Rachel, and whom you may recognize from "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning" and other British films. The character of Johnny may cause you to blink if you've just seen the wonderful "A Room with a View."
Omar (Gordon Warnecke) hires his school friend (Daniel Day-Lewis), a former Fascist and current lover, to do the graft in converting his laundrette into a ve...
