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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

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

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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

Evening Standard

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

The rising stars of stage and screen 2023

Keep an eye out for these about-to-be-famous faces

Evening Standard

The best films of 2023 to look forward to

New movies from Martin Scorsese, Wes Anderson, Sam Mendes, Greta Gerwig and Florian Zeller, among others, mean there’s a feast of cinema to look forward to in the coming months

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Aftersun basks in glory at the British Independent Film Awards

Charlotte Wells’ debut feature, starring Paul Mescal, wins seven prizes, while Section 28 drama Blue Jean takes best lead and best supporting performance

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Othello; Baghdaddy – review

Opposite Giles Terera’s dynamic yet vulnerable Othello, Rosy McEwen’s forthright Desdemona is a revelation

The Guardian - UK

Othello at the National Theatre review - Giles Terera shines in this powerful, brutal staging

Almost everything in Clint Dyer’s production is harsh and stark

Evening Standard

Othello review – Clint Dyer makes this tragedy feel utterly new

Giles Terera stars in a thrilling production with a radical climax that explores the domestic violence in Shakespeare’s play

The Guardian - UK

Scottish director Charlotte Wells leads nominations at prestigious film awards

SCOTTISH director Charlotte Wells's debut feature film is leading this year's British Independent Film Awards nominations with a stunning 16 nods.

The National (Scotland)

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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