• Director(s)

    Jane Mingay

  • Production Year

    2024

  • Release date

    18/03/2025

  • Genre(s)

    Documentary, Music

  • Approx. running minutes

    92m

  • Cast

    Pauline Black, Arthur ‘Gaps’ Hendrickson, Don Letts

Film

Pauline Black: A 2-Tone Story

sexual violence references

Pauline Black, lead singer with the 2-tone ska band The Selecter, which rose to prominence in the late 1970s, talks about her life, musical and acting career, and political activism.…

Pauline Black, lead singer with the 2-tone ska band The Selecter, which rose to prominence in the late 1970s, talks about her life, musical and acting career, and political activism.

Content Advice(May contain spoilers)

violence

language

sex

discrimination

drugs

sexual violence and sexual threat

suicide and self-harm

threat and horror

  • Director(s)

    Jane Mingay

  • Production Year

    2024

  • Release date

    18/03/2025

  • Genre(s)

    Documentary, Music

  • Approx. running minutes

    92m

  • Cast

    Pauline Black, Arthur ‘Gaps’ Hendrickson, Don Letts

sexual violence references
Classified Date:
14/03/2025
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Tigerlily Two MD
violence
A man talks about being the victim of racist violence, and there is brief archive footage of demonstrators meeting with forceful treatment by police. A body covered by a sheet is seen in an image from the US Civil Rights era. There is a brief reference to physical domestic abuse.
language
Infrequent strong language ('f**k') is accompanied by milder terms such as 'slag;, 'slut', 'piss', 'bugger', 'shit', 'damn' and 'hell'.
sex
Moderate sex references include remarks about an open relationship within a marriage, 'getting laid' and being racially typecast as a sex worker in acting roles.
discrimination
There are accounts of historical racism embodied by movements such as the National Front, and of outdated racial stereotyping such as popular 'minstrel' shows on British television. Pauline Black describes her particular experiences of racial discrimination as a Black child adopted by white parents in the 1950s, and being racially typecast in her acting career. Within this context there are reported uses of discriminatory terms such as 'wog', 'golliwog', 'coon', 'darkie'' and 'coloured'. There are also references to sexism. Discrimination is strongly and clearly condemned by the work as a whole.
drugs
There are references to historical drug misuse, including smoking marijuana and taking 'magic mushrooms'.
sexual violence and sexual threat
A woman's recollections of being sexually abused as a teenager by an adult male contains disturbing details of her experience.
suicide and self-harm
A woman talks about a time in her life when she considered suicide.

  • Classified date

    14/03/2025

  • Language

    English