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www.film.u-net.com - : Ah, those were the days. The '80s. A time when Margaret Thatcher towered bestride the country, a political colossus in a parliament of dwarfs. For those on the upswing these were years of infinite opportunity, a boundless feast of finance. Unfortunately such largesse commanded a desperate price, in this case the crushing of those without the means or desire to align themselves with Mrs. T's culture of greed. My Beautiful Laundrette, a fair and true product of the decade, crosses between these (and many other) camps in distilling the era. It captures the scents and sounds, the thoughts and actions; in every fibre Stephen Frears' film speaks of a past so removed it hardly seems to have existed. more...
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www.spiritualityandpractice.com - : This excellent British film was directed by Stephen Frears from a screenplay by Pakistani writer Hanif Kureishi. It offers a grim portrait of societal disintegration during the 1980s in Great Britain, a country rife with racial tensions and a thriving underground economy. more...
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