Day-Lewis turned heads with his electric performance as a gay English street tough in an interracial relationship with entrepreneurial Pakistani Gordon Warnecke. As the latter’s family navigates the Thatcher era, the two young men refurbish a run-down laundrette, transforming it into an inviting space. Frears’ crisp direction complements Hanif Kureishi’s tartly funny Oscar-nominated script. With Roshan Seth, Saeed Jaffrey, and Shirley Anne Field.
My Beautiful Laundrette
1985, 98m, 35mm, U.K.
Part of the program
A film by Stephen Frears
Starring Roshan Seth Daniel Day-Lewis Saeed Jaffrey Gordon Warnecke Rita Wolf Shirley Anne Field Derrick Branche Souad Faress Richard Graham Stephen Marcus
Written by Hanif Kureishi