“I’m broken, and in a approach you’re not — not less than you don’t should be,” a P.E. trainer tells her pupil in a brand new trailer for “Blue Jean.” Written and directed by Georgia Oakley, the drama is ready in 1988 England and tells the story of Jean (Rosy McEwen), a lesbian who resides a double life. A brand new regulation 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 certainly one of her college students (Lucy Halliday) at a homosexual bar, she goes into disaster, seemingly torn between the need to avoid wasting her job and to be a assist 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 instructed us, “I learn an article a few 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 superb picture, and what might need led as much as this occasion, traditionally. However I used to be additionally amazed that I’d by no means heard about this regulation, although it wasn’t repealed until 2003. I began eager about the affect it might have had on homosexual academics, but additionally the indelible mark it had left on my life, with out my understanding of its existence,” she defined.

“Blue Jean” made its world premiere finally yr’s Venice Movie Competition. It hits cinemas in England February 10. No phrase on a U.S. launch date but.