Poly Styrene: I Am A Cliche

language

There is infrequent strong language ('f**k'), including written uses of the term, as well as milder bad language such as 'whore', 'bloody', 'bollocks', 'arse', 'hell' and 'God'. There is use of the outdated term 'half-caste, and text in a book contains a disguised use of the term 'n****rs'.

sex

Archive footage features New York street scenes which include shots of billboards outside sex cinemas displaying the suggestive titles of films and images of women with hands covering breasts. In an archive interview, Poly Styrene talks about the song 'Oh Bondage Up Yours!' and says it refers to emotional and social bondage, as well as "sexual bondage".

drugs

There are images of joints being prepared and smoked, as well as verbal references to drug misuse, which the work as a whole does not endorse.

additional issues: There are accounts of Poly Styrene's history of mental health problems, the mis-diagnosis of her condition and the medication programme she was under. Her neglect of her young daughter, including an instance of physical abuse, is attributed to her mental health issues. There are references to historical racial discrimination, including the difficulties faced by mixed race children. There are also verbal references to terminal cancer, death and bereavement.

infrequent strong language, moderate sex references, drug misuse

Classified Date:

05/05/2021

Version:

2D

Use:

Cinema

Distributor:

Poly Doc Ltd

language

There is infrequent strong language ('f**k'), including written uses of the term, as well as milder bad language such as 'whore', 'bloody', 'bollocks', 'arse', 'hell' and 'God'. There is use of the outdated term 'half-caste, and text in a book contains a disguised use of the term 'n****rs'.

sex

Archive footage features New York street scenes which include shots of billboards outside sex cinemas displaying the suggestive titles of films and images of women with hands covering breasts. In an archive interview, Poly Styrene talks about the song 'Oh Bondage Up Yours!' and says it refers to emotional and social bondage, as well as "sexual bondage".

drugs

There are images of joints being prepared and smoked, as well as verbal references to drug misuse, which the work as a whole does not endorse.

additional issues: There are accounts of Poly Styrene's history of mental health problems, the mis-diagnosis of her condition and the medication programme she was under. Her neglect of her young daughter, including an instance of physical abuse, is attributed to her mental health issues. There are references to historical racial discrimination, including the difficulties faced by mixed race children. There are also verbal references to terminal cancer, death and bereavement.

infrequent strong language, moderate sex references, drug misuse

Classified Date:

28/09/2021

Version:

2D

Use:

VOD/Streaming

Distributor:

Poly Doc Ltd

language

There is infrequent strong language ('f**k'), including written uses of the term, as well as milder bad language such as 'whore', 'bloody', 'bollocks', 'arse', 'hell' and 'God'. There is use of the outdated term 'half-caste, and text in a book contains a disguised use of the term 'n****rs'.

sex

Archive footage features New York street scenes which include shots of billboards outside sex cinemas displaying the suggestive titles of films and images of women with hands covering breasts. In an archive interview, Poly Styrene talks about the song 'Oh Bondage Up Yours!' and says it refers to emotional and social bondage, as well as "sexual bondage".

drugs

There are images of joints being prepared and smoked, as well as verbal references to drug misuse, which the work as a whole does not endorse.

additional issues: There are accounts of Poly Styrene's history of mental health problems, the mis-diagnosis of her condition and the medication programme she was under. Her neglect of her young daughter, including an instance of physical abuse, is attributed to her mental health issues. There are references to historical racial discrimination, including the difficulties faced by mixed race children. There are also verbal references to terminal cancer, death and bereavement.

Classified date

28/09/2021
Language

English

Director(s)

Celeste Bell and Paul Sng

Production Year

2021

Genre(s)

Documentary

Approx. running minutes

96m

Cast

Poly Styrene, Ifrah Ahmed, Adrian Bell