{"id":11359,"date":"2015-12-11T20:46:41","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T20:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/intercardiff\/?p=11359"},"modified":"2015-12-11T20:46:41","modified_gmt":"2015-12-11T20:46:41","slug":"lets-re-view-my-beautiful-laundrette-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/business-culture\/lets-re-view-my-beautiful-laundrette-together","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s re-view My Beautiful Laundrette together"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>A classic 1980s British film in which young Day-Lewis plays a handsome homosexual boy who fell in love with an Asian-British.<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11361\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11361\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/my-beautiful-laundrette.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11361\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/my-beautiful-laundrette.jpg\" alt=\"My Beautiful Laundrette http:\/\/www.empireonline.com\/movies\/beautiful-laundrette\/review\/\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/my-beautiful-laundrette.jpg 640w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/my-beautiful-laundrette-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/my-beautiful-laundrette-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11361\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11361\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/my-beautiful-laundrette.jpg\" alt=\"My Beautiful Laundrette http:\/\/www.empireonline.com\/movies\/beautiful-laundrette\/review\/\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/my-beautiful-laundrette.jpg 640w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/my-beautiful-laundrette-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/my-beautiful-laundrette-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)<\/p>\n<p><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Rating: \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2606 \u00a03.5 stars<\/p>\n<p>Director: Stephen Frears<\/p>\n<p>Writer: Hanif Kureishi<\/p>\n<p>Cast: Saeed Jaffrey, Roshan Seth, Daniel Day-Lewis<\/p>\n<p>Set in Thatcher\u2019s Britain, this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001241\/?ref_=tt_ov_dr\">Stephen Frears<\/a> film tells a story about Omar, a young Asian Briton boldly tried to take charge of one of his uncle, Nasser\u2019s small business \u2013 an old laundry, redecorating it and\u00a0finally made it a success. Johnny, Omar&#8217;s old friend, a white man who used to be a\u00a0racist, joined Omar&#8217;s business after they met again. The two boys finally fell in love with each other.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Frears, the director, known for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0146882\/?ref_=nm_ov_bio_lk1\"><em>High Fidelity<\/em> <\/a>(2000),\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0436697\/?ref_=nm_ov_bio_lk2\">The Queen<\/a><\/em> (2006) and <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2431286\/?ref_=nm_ov_bio_lk3\">Philomena<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(2013), is always good at telling stories of ordinary people.\u00a0Like many other films produced in the 80s and 90s,\u00a0<em>My Beautiful Laundrette<\/em>\u00a0is a social realism film portraying people&#8217;s struggle for living. At the same time, it tried to challenge the stereotypical representations on post-colonial British identities, queer relationships and Thatcher&#8217;s political environment at that time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/p01rpk23.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11463 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/p01rpk23.jpg\" alt=\"p01rpk23\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/p01rpk23.jpg 640w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/p01rpk23-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/p01rpk23-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11463 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/p01rpk23.jpg\" alt=\"p01rpk23\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/p01rpk23.jpg 640w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/p01rpk23-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/p01rpk23-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Additionally, as a typical 80s British film, <em>My Beautiful Laundrette<\/em>\u00a0was low budget, focusing more on characters&#8217; dialogues and acting instead of spectacle actions. There is an unforgettable detail for almost every audience &#8211; the background sound of bubbling, which constantly reminds people of the relaxing environment of a laundry. Moreover, it also helps create a romantic atmosphere for the two boys who gradually fell in love with each other.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chapter.org\/my-beautiful-laundrette-15\">Beautiful Laundrette<\/a><\/em>\u00a0will be on screen at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chapter.org\/\">Chapter Art Centre<\/a> in Cardiff at <span style=\"color: #00ccff\">6.15pm on 19 Dec<\/span>, for people who want to review their 1980s or interested in the character of young handsome Daniel Day-Lewis, and especially international audiences who wants to know\u00a0the political, multicultural and historical background of this country\u2019s\u00a01980s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">Let&#8217;s go &#8220;re-viewing&#8221; this classic film together.<\/span><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A classic 1980s British film in which young Day-Lewis plays a handsome homosexual boy who fell in love with an Asian-British<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":502,"featured_media":11361,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-11359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-culture","category-politics-social-justice"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - 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