A Way of Life

This unsentimental drama follows Leigh-Anne, a teenage working-class single mother in Cardiff, and the circle of disaffected youth she hangs around with. Asante’s searing exploration of the destructive intersection of poverty and racism captures the sentiments of its time, offering an enduring social-realist portrait of its protagonist, who may be hard to tolerate but is impossible to ignore.

Contains strong and racist language, violence, sex.