British film 'Blue Jean,' about a closeted teacher during the Thatcher era, looks back at a dangerous bill that banned people from “promoting homosexuality”
Still, Jean maintains the façade and keeps the mask in place for her job, which becomes a lot harder to do when a new student, Lois , joins her class. Coach clocks her kicking a ball around in the quad, and immediately reacts. It’s not an attraction so much as a recognition — she senses a kindred spirit in terms of where this young woman falls on the Kinsey scale.
lives or dies on us sitting in that hot seat right next to her, of feeling that sense of death by a thousand lies and moral compromises in the name of survival. That’s where McEwen comes in, and she gives Jean a sense of always being on the defensive without having the luxury of showing her dread to the world. There are equally strong veins of self-loathing and self-preservation in her performance, as well as a refusal to pander for an audience’s sympathy while courting its empathy.
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