A Way Of Life |
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cert 15, 91 minutes. £ 4.50 £4.00 (conc) director: Amma Asante with Stephanie James, Nathan Jones, Gary Sheppeard |
Fri 21, Sun 23, Tues 25, Thur 27 January 6pm Sat 22, Mon 24, Wed 26 January 8.30pm Leigh-Anne (James) is an 18-year-old single mother of a 10-month-old baby living in a claustrophobic community in a docks area of South Wales. Struggling with the legacy of her own disruptive childhood, she finds herself trapped in a benefits system she cannot get to work in her favour. Under pressure and confused, and encouraged by a tight knit group of narrow minded friends who serve as her extended family she expresses her frustration with ignorant, racist rants against a Muslim neighbour. With a young cast who deliver frighteningly convincing performances, first time director Asante offers a daring, complex attempt to explore the roots of and reasons for racism in a film that delivers no easy answers or excuses for such attitudes. One of the highlights of the London Film Festival. |
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