“I’m broken, and in a method you’re not — a minimum of you don’t must be,” a P.E. instructor tells her scholar in a brand new trailer for “Blue Jean.” Written and directed by Georgia Oakley, the drama is about in 1988 England and tells the story of Jean (Rosy McEwen), a lesbian who resides a double life. A brand new legislation launched by Margaret Thatcher’s authorities, Part 28, seeks to cease faculties and native governments from “selling homosexuality” by making it unlawful.
When Jean runs into considered one of her college students (Lucy Halliday) at a homosexual bar, she goes into disaster, seemingly torn between the will to avoid wasting her job and to be a help system to the teenager. “What sort of instance are you setting for her?” Jean’s girlfriend (Kerrie Hayes) asks. A defensive Jean explains that she doesn’t really feel the necessity to ” parade [her] sexuality round like a badge of honor.”
Requested what drew her to this story, Oakley informed us, “I learn an article a couple of group of lesbians who had abseiled, in early 1988, into the Home of Lords from the general public gallery throughout a debate on Part 28. And I used to be struck by this wonderful picture, and what may need led as much as this occasion, traditionally. However I used to be additionally amazed that I’d by no means heard about this legislation, even though it wasn’t repealed until 2003. I began fascinated by the affect it could have had on homosexual academics, but in addition the indelible mark it had left on my life, with out my figuring out of its existence,” she defined.
“Blue Jean” made its world premiere ultimately yr’s Venice Movie Pageant. It hits cinemas in England February 10. No phrase on a U.S. launch date but.
Supply: Women And Hollywood
