Indie Meme presents a screening of the 1985 British cult classic My Beautiful Laundrette at Hyperreal Film Club.
Hyperreal Film Club is screening My Beautiful Laundrette on Tuesday, August 11, presented by Indie Meme. It's a 1985 British cult classic directed by Stephen Frears, with a screenplay by Hanif Kureishi that earned an Academy Award nomination.
The film follows the Pakistani immigrant experience in mid-1980s England, a time of immense cultural change and homefront hostility. At the center is an unlikely queer romance between Omar, the son of a Pakistani immigrant family, and Johnny, a neighborhood British punk played by Daniel Day-Lewis. It's a story that pulls in racial tension, class, family drama, and queer sexuality in 1980s London, all handled with a comedic, politically poignant lens. Over the years, it's come to be seen as foundational to queer, British, and post-colonial cinema.
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Indie Meme is presenting the screening at Hyperreal Film Club, an Austin collective that specializes in creating unique movie-watching experiences in unusual, thoughtful, and immersive pop-up environments, and in amplifying local Austin artists. The film is showing at 301 Chicon Street, in the 78702 zip code. Doors open at 7 PM, and the movie starts at 7:30 PM.
