directed by women

MaryAnn’s quick take: A powerful, necessary film, deeply humane and sympathetic, ugly-beautiful in its panic, full of dread and bad behavior. In Blue Jean we feel every iota of Jean’s anxiety at closeted life in the homophobic 1980s. Read the review…

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