My Beautiful Laundrette (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray) R
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- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 38 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: July 21, 2015
- Originally Released: 1985
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Daniel Day-Lewis & Gordon Warnecke | |
Performer: | Saeed Jaffrey, Roshan Seth, Richard Graham, Shirley Anne Field & Stephen Marcus | |
Directed by | Stephen Frears | |
Edited by | Mick Audsley | |
Screenwriting by | Hanif Kureishi | |
Produced by | Tim Bevan & Sarah Radclyffe | |
Director of Photography: | Oliver Stapleton |
Entertainment Reviews:
Included in the New York Times 10 BEST FILMS OF 1986
New York Times
...One of the most delicate and touching love scenes in contemporary cinema....Unemphatic, guileless, easy, touching and unashamedly erotic...
Sight and Sound
How many times in the history of the medium have we seen a single film rattle as many socio-cinematic paradigms-and done it with as much brio-as My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)?
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Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta)
Fast, bold, harsh and primitive like a prodigious student film with equal parts promise and threat.
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TIME Magazine
...With the superb Jaffrey and Seth as linchpins, the cast is extraordinary...
Los Angeles Times
This is a uniquely plausible portrait of life in England, yet its appeal isn't limited to social realism -- it also has a twist of buoyant fantasy and romance
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Chicago Reader
...Rude, wise, vivid social comedy....[Lewis gives] a performance that has both extraordinary technical flash and emotional substance...
New York Times
Product Description:
MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE is a highly acclaimed and beautifully rendered portrait of two boyhood friends struggling to survive in racially tense Thatcher-era Britain. Omar, a homosexual Pakistani boy living in London with his alcoholic father, lifts a chunk of drug money from another Pakistani and, with his school chum Johnny, decides to renovate a grungy laundrette. Featuring seething dialogue and visually stunning camera work, the film explores the world of modern Pakistanis trapped between two cultures in Thatcher's Britain and their white working class counterparts with no future in their own country.
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- Sales Rank: 76,465
- UPC: 715515151719
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