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“My Beautiful Laundrette,” which will start at the Westend tomorrow, makes a belated return to Christchurch after a brief screening at last year’s film festival.
Set in the Pakistani community of London, the film follows the fortunes of handsome Omar (Gordon Warnecke), who enlists the help of his English schoolfriend, and erstwhile fascist, Johnny (Daniel Day Lewis), to run a dilapidated laundrette given to him by his rich uncle.
Together, they transform the laundrette
into a veritable palace, gAudily lit, with Space Invaders, MuzaK and video screens. Against a background of racial tension and poverty in the run-down London
suburb, their own relationship blossoms to love and is consummated at their private opening of the laundrette, while an eager public is kept waiting outside.
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Press, 23 July 1987, Page 24
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