My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)
Directed by Stephen Frears
A young Pakistani Briton manages a rundown laundrette with his lover while dealing with tension in his family, the local Pakistani community, and a persistent mob of skinheads.
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The few truly erotic scenes in movies—such as Alan Bates and Jennie Linden in Ken Russell’s Women in Love (1969), Bates and Oliver Reed’s nude wrestling match in the same film, Daniel Day-Lewis and Gordon Warnecke in Stephen Frears’ My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)—capture the abandonment and essence of the events, not the mechanics and certainly not for seven minutes.
This time around, Chereau is not pulling from French history but two stories: "Intimacy" and "Night Light" by Hanif Kureishi, the gifted writer of "My Beautiful Laundrette," "Sammy and Rosie Get Laid" and "My Son the Fanatic."
Based on the novel "Intimacy" and the story "Nightlight," by Hanif Kureishi the Pakistani-British writer best known for his screenplay "My Beautiful Laundrette" this is a surprisingly moving film.
Based on stories by Hanif Kureishi ("My Beautiful Laundrette," "Sammy and Rosie Get Laid") and directed by Frenchman Patrice Ch�reau ("Queen Margot"; this is his first English-language film), "Intimacy" is an earnest but ultimately pretentious production.
Adapted by Chereau and Anne-Louise Tridivic from "Intimacy" and "Night Light" by "My Beautiful Laundrette" writer Hanif Kureishi, it stars Mark Rylance and Kerry Fox as lovers who know nothing about each other but meet weekly for searing sexual encounters.
Ed's shy nature works against him at a diplomatic party, but when Lindsay charms Marwan Al-Kirmani (Bhasker Patel, "My Beautiful Laundrette") by appealing to his expertise, Ed's off and running.
"High Fidelity" was directed by England's Stephen Frears ("My Beautiful Laundrette").
But when you've got a director, Stephen Frears, whose touch in re-creating the down-and-out of London, its aura of stagnant classism and defeatism, has been unequaled since My Beautiful Laundrette, what's the point?
Excellent choice — he's a Brit who knows how to navigate the sexual byways of England (My Beautiful Laundrette) and America (The Grifters, in which Cusack starred).
Admirers of director Stephen Frears - better known for dramas like "Dangerous Liaisons" and "My Beautiful Laundrette" than for comedies like this - might want to catch it, and Cusack fans will get their fill.