My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.0/10   

Director:

Stephen Frears

Guionista:

Hanif Kureishi (written by)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

abril 1986 (USA)

Género:

Comedia | Drama | Romance

Plot:

An ambitious Asian Briton and his white lover strive for success and hope, when they open up a glamorous laundromat.

Plot Keywords:

Laundromat | London England | Thatcher | Indo Pak | Mistress

Premios:

Nominated for Oscar. Another 5 wins & 3 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

A Pleasant Surprise

Reparto

Saeed Jaffrey	...	Nasser Hussein
Roshan Seth	...	Ali Hussein
Daniel Day-Lewis	...	Johnny (as Daniel Day Lewis)
Gordon Warnecke	...	Omar Hussein
Derrick Branche	...	Salim N. Hussein
Rita Wolf	...	Tania N. Hussein
Souad Faress	...	Cherry N. Hussein
Richard Graham	...	Genghis
Shirley Anne Field	...	Rachel
Winston Graham	...	Jamaican One
Charu Bala Chokshi	...	Bilquis (as Charu Bala Choksi)
Dudley Thomas	...	Jamaican Two
Garry Cooper	...	Squatter
Neil Cunningham	...	Englishman
Persis Maravala	...	Nasser's Elder Daughter

También conocida como:

Mi hermosa lavandería (Spain) [es]
Ropa limpia, negocios sucios (Argentina) [es]

Duración:

97 min

País:

UK

Idioma:

Inglés | Urdu

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

1.66 : 1

Sonido:

Mono

Clasificación:

Argentina:18 | Iceland:16 | Australia:M | Portugal:M/16 | Finland:K-16 | France:U | South Korea:18 | Sweden:15 | UK:15 | USA:R | West Germany:16

Locaciones de Filmación:

245 Queenstown Road, Battersea, London, England, UK

Compañía:

Channel Four Films

Trivialidades:

My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) and A Room with a View (1985) both opened in New York on the same day, March 7, 1986. Both movies featured Daniel Day-Lewis in prominent and very different roles: in A Room with a View, he played a repressed, snobbish Edwardian upperclassman, while in Laundrette, he played a lower-class gay ex-skinhead in love with an ambitious Pakistani businessman in Thatcher's London. When American critics saw Day-Lewis, who was then virtually unknown in the US, in two such different roles on the same day, many (including Roger Ebert of The Chicago Sun-Times and Vincent Canby of The New York Times) raved about the talent it must have taken him to play such vastly different characters.

Citas:

Nasser: Yes... But first we must marry Omar off.
[Cut to Omar and Johnny making love in the back room]

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in Do the Right Thing (1989)

A Pleasant Surprise

We saw this movie when it was first released on the big screen. It just happen to start when we needed a movie to so we had no idea what to expect. What a pleasant surprise this film was. Daniel Day Lewis (in one of his earliest roles) stars with Gordon Warnecke in this unconventional love story. Warnecke plays young Omar, who is given the opprtunity to run his uncle's laundrette. He enlists the aid of his ex-lover, Johnny (played by Lewis) to get the business back on it's feet. The scene in the laundrette that includes Omar and Johnny in the foreground and Omar's uncle and his mistress in the background, is one of the most sensual celluloid scenes I ever scene.

If you are looking for something good and out of the ordinary, I would recommend this one.