Review of My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) by Richard S — 20 Aug 2008

Just re-watched this having seen it years ago, before I knew who Daniel Day-Lewis was.

I remeber the first time I saw this I totally bought into his character as tough, street savy "punk" they intended him to be. This time around he just seemed like some homeless gay hustler with a bad dye job.

It's a fun little social commentary for the period, a little too "soap-operaish" at times to be as powerful as it might have been.

All in all an enjoyable film, but not nearly as good as I remembered.