My Beautiful Laundrette review – landmark critique of Thatcher’s Britain with a larky Ealing air
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Rerelease of funny-sad tale of a laundry madeover by a young south Asian man and his love interest (Daniel Day-Lewis) is a unique subversion of 1980s UK politics
‘The jewel in the jacksie of south Lon…