Francis Lee on My Beautiful Laundrette

The Film Programme by BBC

Jul 29, 202127:52Society & Culture

My Beautiful Laundrette, written by Hanif Kureishi and directed by Stephen Frears, was one of the early films produced for Channel 4. First screened in 1985, it tells the story of a young British Pakistani, Omar, played...

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