My Beautiful Laundrette Blu-Ray

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