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