My Beautiful Laundrette

Daniel Day-Lewis got the lion’s share of attention at the time (largely because his performance here diverged so wildly from his work in the contemporaneous A Room with a View), but it’s the perpetually underrated Roshan Seth who gives the film a measure of weary gravity. Artist Chitra Ganesh will speak about the film after the screening, the latest presentation in IFC's "Queer/Art/Film" series.