My Beautiful Laundrette
Why this pick
Like Stephen Frears’s restless London satire, it mixes sex, class, ethnicity and political friction with volatile relationships, sharp humour and an energetic, lived-in urban texture.
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Why this pick
Like Stephen Frears’s restless London satire, it mixes sex, class, ethnicity and political friction with volatile relationships, sharp humour and an energetic, lived-in urban texture.
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A prickly, funny portrait of late-1980s London whose social anger emerges through intimate relationships, family encounters and richly observed everyday chaos.
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Its rough-edged London milieu, working-class perspective and unruly humour echo the political charge and immediate street-level vitality of Sammy and Rosie Get Laid.
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Another candid London relationship drama, balancing sensuality, social pressures and humour while finding tenderness amid a vividly specific working-class community.
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For the same combustible vision of London in transition: power, class and race collide in a brisk, tense urban drama with a sharply unsentimental edge.
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01 / THE STORY
Sammy (Ayub Khan-Din) and Rosie (Frances Barber) are a married couple, both leading a promiscuous Bohemianism lifestyle until Sammy's father (Shashi Kapoor) comes to visit to escape past issues.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
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