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‘I like telling difficult stories about contradictory, messy humans’: Meet 2023’s Bafta Breakthroughs

From Florence Pugh to Tom Holland, and Letitia Wright to Jessie Buckley, the names included on the yearly Bafta Breakthrough list are often a spot-on indicator of future industry heavyweights. Here are the names you need to know from the 2023 roster

The Independent UK

Movie Review: In ‘Blue Jean,’ a nuanced picture of life as a lesbian in Margaret Thatcher’s Britain

A high school gym teacher grappling with her sexual identity is challenged on both a micro and macro level in 1988 England in “Blue Jean,” the directorial debut of Georgia Oakley, starring Rosy McEwan in theaters Friday

The Independent UK

‘Electric Malady? Marie, girl, what a slay’: deconstructing Ariana DeBose’s personalised Bafta rap

The West Side Story star put in one of the all-time great berserk musical performances with a bespoke song celebrating, by name, many of this year’s female nominees

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'I'm a film director focusing on LGBTQ+ love - my own battles with homophobia drive me'

Award-winning director Georgia Oakley opens up about her plight to represent LGBTQ+ women in cinema, the harmful legacy of Section 28 and her own struggles with internalised homophobia

Daily Mirror

Blue Jean review – Rosy McEwen is riveting in powerful section 28 drama

McEwan plays a teacher leading a double life in homophobic Thatcherite Britain in Georgia Oakley’s terrific debut feature

The Guardian - UK

Blue Jean review: A striking, prescient British debut that resists all ‘lesbian drama’ clichés

Crucially, Georgia Oakley’s film may be set in 1988 but doesn’t embrace the myth that modern Britain is on a steady path of betterment

The Independent UK

Blue Jean movie review: Rosy McEwan is exhilarating in Section 28 film

This hopeful work is fit to stand alongside My Beautiful Laundrette and Pride

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Where around Newcastle was Blue Jean filmed? Here are North East locations used in the Bafta-nominated drama

Newcastle audiences will be among the first to see much talked-about new film Blue Jean which was filmed in the North East and is set to have its first special screening in the city on January 31 ahead of its general release

Chronicle Live

Aftersun and Blue Jean lead British independent film awards nominations

Sebastián Lelio’s drama The Wonder also scores a host of nods, with Paul Mescal and Florence Pugh both up for acting awards

The Guardian - UK

Blue Jean review – watchable section 28 drama makes its point

Venice film festival: Though some of the acting seems a bit made-for-TV, this 80s-set drama looking at homophobia during the Thatcher era has a forthright, soap-operatic force

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