My Beautiful Launderette (Film Screening)

The event will start at 18:00 for a quick meet&greet, followed by the film viewing at 18:30. According to the website, a ticket costs around 4€, to be booked in advance or paid on the evening by guests themselves. Looking forward to it!

The story is set in London during the Thatcher years, as reflected in the complex, and often comical, relationships between members of the Pakistani and English communities. The story focuses on Omar, played by Gordon Warnecke, a young Pakistani man living in London, and his reunion and eventual romance with his old friend, a street punk named Johnny, played by Daniel Day-Lewis. The two become the caretakers and business managers of a launderette originally owned by Omar's uncle Nasser.

The British Film Institute ranked My Beautiful Laundrette the 50th greatest British film of the 20th century.

UK 1985 | Stephen Frears | vostFR | 97’ | 35mm | Cast : Daniel Day-Lewis, Gordon Warnecke, Saeed Jaffrey

Best Original Screenplay nomination, Oscars 1987

“It’s every bit the landmark gay film it deserves to be. The humanist in Frears refuses to shortchange the damage that’s inevitably wrought by his characters’ shenanigans. Said damage is most vividly embodied by Day-Lewis’s beautifully primal performance, which renders a heart-breaking portrait of a man who feels more than is really allowed of him by his world.” (Slant Magazine)