My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) Blu-ray

Ensi-ilta: 16.11.1985

Alkuperäinen nimi: My Beautiful Laundrette

Teatterikesto: 98 min

Maa: United Kingdom

Arvosana: TMDB: 6.7/10 | IMDB

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 (Gordon Warnecke), who decides to open an upscale laundromat to make his family proud, and his childhood friend, a skinhead (Daniel Day-Lewis, in a breakthrough role) who volunteers to help make his dream a reality. This culture-clash comedy is also a subversive work of social realism that dares to address racism, homophobia, and sociopolitical marginalization in Margaret Thatcher’s England.

Film Info

United Kingdom

1985

98 minutes

Color

1.66:1

English

Spine #767

DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

New, restored 2K digital transfer, supervised by director of photography Oliver Stapleton, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack

New conversation between director Stephen Frears and producer Colin MacCabe

New interviews with writer Hanif Kureishi, producers Tim Bevan and Sarah Radclyffe, and Stapleton

Trailer

English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

PLUS: An essay by critic Graham Fuller

New cover by Eric Skillman