“Most political films of the time were earnest, but this moment felt like Andy Warhol’s soup tins – pop art, transgressive, daringly in love with pleasure. It was a turning point for me, a kind of mockery. And sexy as fuck.”
—Mark Cousins

“MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE … threw a Molotov cocktail of urban chaos, polemical ire, spiky comedy, and mixed-race queer sex into the so-called British Film Renaissance of 1984–86.”
—Current

A Pakistani man takes over a laundrette from his uncle and resumes a gay relationship with a former lover. Daniel Day-Lewis and Gordon Warnecke star in Hanif Kureishi’s tale on love under Thatcherism from director Stephen Frears. Screening in 35mm.