Dir. Stephen Frears, UK, 1985, 98 mins.

Show times:

Friday 5th September at 6pm

Saturday 6th September at 8pm

Wednesday 10th September at 2.30pm (Descriptive Subtitles)

Thursday 11th September at 6pm

Cast. Daniel Day-Lewis, Saeed Jaffrey, Roshan Seth, Gordon Warnecke, Shirley Anne Field.

My Beautiful Laundrette established the career of writer Hanif Kureishi, launched the cinema star that is Daniel Day-Lewis and catapulted director Stephen Frears into the cinema fast lane. This controversial culture-clash comedy captured the tensions of multiculturalism and Thatcherism whilst its central gay inter racial relationship was both praised and criticised.

The film is the very definition of intersectionality! Today, the issues it grapples with still feels relevant, and its deliberately awkward politics of new money, entrepreneurial possibility and neoliberalism, coupled with the presence of disenfranchised white working class, and the foregrounding of a gay relationship make the film resonate loudly 40 years on.

A 2K restoration supervised by director of photography Oliver Stapleton c/o Criterion, Park Circus and Channel 4.

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