Film Screening: My Beautiful Laundrette with the LGBTQ+ Equity Center

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Join us for a screening of My Beautiful Laundrette with a discussion moderated by the LGBTQ+ Equity Center! Popcorn and sodas will be provided. This event is limited to 50 attendees, so be sure to register in advance!

From The Criterion Collection: Stephen Frears was at the forefront of the British cinematic revival of the mid-1980s, and the delightfully transgressive My Beautiful Laundrette is his greatest triumph of the period. Working from a richly layered script by Hanif Kureishi, who was soon to be an internationally renowned writer, Frears tells an uncommon love story that takes place between a young South London Pakistani man (Gordon Warnecke), who decides to open an upscale laundromat to make his family proud, and his childhood friend, a skinhead (Daniel Day-Lewis, in a breakthrough role) who volunteers to help make his dream a reality. This culture-clash comedy is also a subversive work of social realism that dares to address racism, homophobia, and sociopolitical marginalization in Margaret Thatcher’s England.

Content warning: this film depicts racial violence and racial slurs.

This film screening is a part of the "Love on the Brain: Researching Romance in Popular Culture" programming for February's Scholarship as Conversation series.