• Director(s)

    Menelik Shabazz

  • Production Year

    1981

  • Release date

    19/08/2022

  • Genre(s)

    Drama

  • Approx. running minutes

    106m

  • Cast

    Cassie McFarlane, Victor Romero Evans, Beverley Martin

Film

Burning An Illusion

domestic abuse, brief strong violence

BURNING AN ILLUSION is a UK drama, from 1981, in which a series of circumstances change a young Black woman's hopes and ideas of a settled life.…

BURNING AN ILLUSION is a UK drama, from 1981, in which a series of circumstances change a young Black woman's hopes and ideas of a settled life.

violence
Women are slapped and kicked by male partners who also demonstrate their abusive nature in angry words and threats of violence. In the process of resisting arrest a man pulls a knife and slashes a policeman's face in undetailed fashion, with brief sight of bloody injury in the aftermath. In a random racist attack a Black woman is shot in the leg from a passing car, although her injuries are not life-threatening.
additional issues
There is infrequent strong language ('f**k), as well as milder terms such as 'bitch' and 'God'. There are references to racism, including a Black man stating that Black prisoners are treated like "n****rs". Characters smoke marijuana, as well as cigarettes. Two women are subjected to mild sexual harassment as a man attempts to chat them up in the street, but they rebuff him.

  • Director(s)

    Menelik Shabazz

  • Production Year

    1981

  • Release date

    19/08/2022

  • Genre(s)

    Drama

  • Approx. running minutes

    106m

  • Cast

    Cassie McFarlane, Victor Romero Evans, Beverley Martin

domestic abuse, brief strong violence
Classified Date:
09/08/2022
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
BFI Films
violence
Women are slapped and kicked by male partners who also demonstrate their abusive nature in angry words and threats of violence. In the process of resisting arrest a man pulls a knife and slashes a policeman's face in undetailed fashion, with brief sight of bloody injury in the aftermath. In a random racist attack a Black woman is shot in the leg from a passing car, although her injuries are not life-threatening.
additional issues
There is infrequent strong language ('f**k), as well as milder terms such as 'bitch' and 'God'. There are references to racism, including a Black man stating that Black prisoners are treated like "n****rs". Characters smoke marijuana, as well as cigarettes. Two women are subjected to mild sexual harassment as a man attempts to chat them up in the street, but they rebuff him.
Classified Date:
17/03/1982
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
British Film Institute Ltd
Classified Date:
23/05/2000
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
BFI Video

  • Classified date

    09/08/2022

  • Language

    English