fromwww.theguardian.com
16 hours agoIt was a buddy movie and then they kissed': Stephen Frears and Hanif Kureishi on My Beautiful Laundrette at 40
My Beautiful Laundrette, which revolves around a run-down dive transformed into a jewel in the jacksie of south London by an Anglo-Pakistani entrepreneur and his lover, did many things: it distilled and critiqued an entire political movement (Thatcherism), portrayed gay desire in unfashionably relaxed terms, and audaciously blended social realism with fable-like magic and cinematic grandeur.
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