Tag: Margaret Thatcher

  • SFF 2023: ‘Blue Jean’ and life under Thatcher’s homophobic Britain

    SFF 2023: ‘Blue Jean’ and life under Thatcher’s homophobic Britain

    This review is part of Tharunka’s continued coverage of the 70th Sydney Film Festival. Read the rest of the reviews here.  This year’s Sydney Writer’s Festival features Georgia Oakley’s directorial debut feature film Blue Jean, set during 1988 in the United Kingdom, when Margaret Thatcher’s government was on the precipice of enacting Section 28.  Section 28 was UK…