• Director(s)

    Ivo Van Hove

  • Production Year

    2023

  • Release date

    28/09/2023

  • Genre(s)

    Drama, Performance

  • Approx. running minutes

    219m

  • Cast

    James Norton, Luke Thompson, Omari Douglas

Film

A Little Life

sexual violence, child sex abuse theme, self-harm, suicide

Complex themes of self-harm, suicide and child sex abuse are explored in this live recording of a drama adapted from Hanya Yanagihara's novel of the same name, about a young man grappling with his haunted past.…

Complex themes of self-harm, suicide and child sex abuse are explored in this live recording of a drama adapted from Hanya Yanagihara's novel of the same name, about a young man grappling with his haunted past.

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Content Advice(May contain spoilers)

language

sex

drugs

sexual violence and sexual threat

suicide

self-harm

injury detail

violence

  • Director(s)

    Ivo Van Hove

  • Production Year

    2023

  • Release date

    28/09/2023

  • Genre(s)

    Drama, Performance

  • Approx. running minutes

    219m

  • Cast

    James Norton, Luke Thompson, Omari Douglas

sexual violence, child sex abuse theme, self-harm, suicide
Classified Date:
14/09/2023
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Trafalgar Releasing Ltd
language
There is use of strong language ('f**k'), accompanied by other milder terms ('shit', 'ass', 'dick', 'asshole', 'Jesus', 'Christ', 'God' and 'damn').
sex
Two characters have sex concealed by a blanket. This and other scenes deal with a man's struggles to be physically intimate as a result of childhood trauma.
drugs
There are occasional scenes of joint smoking, as well as references to getting high.
sexual violence and sexual threat
A man struggles to come to terms with the sexual and emotional abuse he was subjected to as a young boy, which has left him mentally and physically debilitated. There are graphic verbal descriptions of child abuse, both sexual and emotional, and sometimes visual depictions of sexual acts; however, these instances are portrayed by adult actors and without explicit sexual detail. There are also scenes of sexual violence in which a man is subjected to sexually abusive and violent behaviour, and raped by his lover.
suicide
A character attempts to take their own life, which is accompanied by strong bloody injury detail. There are also other references to suicide and mental health throughout.
self-harm
Several scenes depict self-harm in a graphic and bloody manner, accompanied by verbal references.
injury detail
Blood features in several scenes throughout the performance, including those in which a man self-harms and attempts to take his own life. A character appears on stage for sustained periods with their body and clothing smeared with blood.
flashing/flickering lights
This work contains flashing images which may affect viewers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy.
Classified Date:
16/08/2023
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Trafalgar Releasing Ltd

  • Classified date

    14/09/2023

  • Language

    English