My Beautiful Laundrette : Turner Classic Movies British Film Guide PDF
by Christine Geraghty
Part of the British Film Guides series
Description
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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- Pages:128 pages, 20 b/w illustrations
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:29/10/2004
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- ISBN:9780857715005
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:128 pages, 20 b/w illustrations
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:29/10/2004
- Category:
- ISBN:9780857715005
