• Director(s)

    Rebecca Hirsch Lloyd-Evans, Lisa Selby, Alex Fry

  • Production Year

    2022

  • Release date

    07/04/2023

  • Genre(s)

    Documentary

  • Approx. running minutes

    102m

Film

Blue Bag Life

drug misuse, very strong language

A mother's journey into drug addiction is unflinchingly recorded by her daughter in this moving and raw documentary. Themes of mental health, illness and death are dealt with sensitively. …

A mother's journey into drug addiction is unflinchingly recorded by her daughter in this moving and raw documentary. Themes of mental health, illness and death are dealt with sensitively.

Content Advice(May contain spoilers)

violence

language

sex

drugs

theme

threat and horror

discrimination

sexual violence and sexual threat

  • Director(s)

    Rebecca Hirsch Lloyd-Evans, Lisa Selby, Alex Fry

  • Production Year

    2022

  • Release date

    07/04/2023

  • Genre(s)

    Documentary

  • Approx. running minutes

    102m

drug misuse, very strong language
Classified Date:
24/04/2023
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Modern Films
violence
A woman recalls that when she was a child, her mother's boyfriend held a pillow over her face until she was struggling to breath and then locked her in a room. There are references to a mother's neglect of her daughter.
language
Use of very strong language ('c**t') is accompanied by strong ('f**k') and milder terms (for example, 'shit', 'piss', 'bloody' and 'God').
sex
A man jokingly tells his girlfriend he would like her to sit on his face.
drugs
A man prepares and injects heroin. There is sight of drug paraphernalia and a woman's heroin track marks as well as frequent verbal references to drugs including to heroin addiction, LSD, opiates, alcoholism and marijuana. Drugs are not glamourised and the negative impact drugs has on lives and families are clearly documented.
theme
There are references to a woman dying of cancer and being refused chemotherapy because of her drug addiction. A woman confesses to starving her hamster to death when she was a child. A photograph of a dead woman is shown with a close up on her bruised hands. A man's mental health struggles are discussed and there are references to death, bereavement and school bullying.
flashing/flickering lights
This work contains flashing images which may affect viewers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy.

  • Classified date

    24/04/2023

  • Language

    English