Drama

Romance

My Policeman

Amazon Studios

Berlanti Productions

Independent

United Kingdom

United States of America

English

Gina McKee

Linus Roache

Rupert Everett

Harry Styles

Emma Corrin

David Dawson

Kadiff Kirwan

Emily John

Dora Davis

Joseph Potter

Richard Dempsey

Jae Alexander

Freya Mavor

Sean Jackson

Maddie Rice

Richard Cant

Chris Ma

Lucy Briers

Jack Bandeira

Gareth Kennerley

John Sandeman

Nicholas Tennant

Charlotte Randle

Patrick Brennan

Brian Martin

James Tucker

Tristan Sturrock

Ian Drysdale

Stefano Braschi

Harry Attwell

Simon Shorten

Michael Ayala-Cole

James Hare

Sarah Lockett

Róisín Monaghan

Andrew Tiernan

Ben Davis

Maria Djurkovic

Caroline Levy

Julie Harkin

Sam Stevenson

Steven Price

Rob Harris

Ritchie Beacham-Paterson

Zoe Cousins

David Rigley-Williamson

Jordan Altria

Alessio David Ciattini

Annie Symons

Samuel James

Matt Loader

David Newton

Kevin Timon Hill

Gloria Peñaranda

Hollie-Jo Allan

Sian Duke

Ana Magarão

Rachel Lisa

Jason Lawrence

Sam Houseman

Paolo Magni

Kate Wilson

Jean Carlos de Blas

Josie Hire

Callum Dawson

Sinéad Cronin

Massimo Pauletto

Guiomar Alonso

Nicholas Daines

Roddy McDonald

George Dowson

Christy Kail

Eléonore Cremonese

Patrick James Stephens

Jan Zalar

Claire Peerless

Maurilio Lazzaro

Joan Giacomin

Pia Brown-Stone

Katie Jude

Toni Staples

Tristan Carlisle-Kitz

Daniel Philips

Filippo Fassetta

Alfie McDonald

Rachel Lennon

Vlad Cirdeiu

Olly Robinson

Sam J Woods

Darren Rae

Maimunah Yahkup

Sharon Trickett

Olivia Lloyd

Nadezha Volodeeva

Isabella Faull

Rose Noble

Victoria Johnson

Lee Biggs

Rob Bean

James Fennessy

Silvia Colafranceschi

Hannah Davis

Joe Bench

Tessa Flanagan

Lottie McDowell

Phil Clark

Lorna Gay Copp

Scott Richard Fensome

Beth Kendrick

Johnathan Rush

Jamie Burrows

Rebecca Mattson

Alan Gilchrist

Sullivan Cayless

James Husbands

Jack Gardner

Dean Moran

Sarah Trundle

Jamie Bench

Dan Morgan

Milos Stojanovic

Jennie Shea

Pamela M. Rogers

Eve Shillingford

Julian Bale

Mark Simpson

Peter Lindsay

Scott Rogers

Paul Hanks

Matthew Swan

Christopher Atkinson

Emma Louise Fox

Thora Woodward

Chris Lyons

Helen Dawson

Felipe Manzur

Manuel São Bento

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"My Policeman lacks everything: energy, surprises, good performances, and an interesting story.

A hollow, dull, instantly forgettable movie that fails to deliver anything of merit. Harry Styles reveals many problems when a scene needs to be carried by him, even turning dramatic moments into laughable line deliveries. The older cast saves this from a total disaster by trying to sail the whole film to safe harbor.

Not only is it by far the worst movie of the festival, but it's also difficult to find similar competition in 2022."

Rating: D-

CinemaSerf

I was rather nervous about seeing this film. After his lacklustre "debut" in "Don't Worry Darling" I feared that Harry Styles was just going to turn up, smile, get naked, and that would be that. Well, to be fair, we have quite a bit more here in this engaging drama. David Dawson is also quite effective as art gallery curator "Patrick" who takes a bit of a shine to policeman "Tom" (Styles) after a cycle incident. The latter shows some interest in art and agrees to be drawn (in full constable's uniform). Nervous, "Patrick" gives his visitor some Scotch and well, you can imagine the rest. The thing is, of course, the UK in the 1950s was still pretty homophobic, and their behaviour must be clandestine to say the least. Simultaneously, "Tom" is trying to conform with a relationship with, and marriage to, "Marion" (Emma Corrin) but gradually she becomes aware that Princess Diana wasn't the only person to have three people in her marriage. Reported, somehow, to the authorities, "Patrick" faces ruin and violent imprisonment. This historical story is set within a rather less interesting template of modern day life, with the recently stroke-affected "Patrick" (a strong, if largely dialogue-free, effort from Rupert Everett) coming to live with the now going-through-the-motions "Marion" (Gina McKee) - whose reading of the invalid man's diaries provides us with the basis for the retrospective - and "Tom" (Linus Roache) and this rather downbeat scenario rather robs the film of any jeopardy and also drags the pace down into something akin to the soporific. Styles is not yet a very good actor. His frequent kissing scenes are quite clumsy to watch and he speaks in a sort of clipped manner suggesting the elocution people have got at him, but there is still something natural about his performance here. He gels well with the accomplished theatre actor Dawson, and the increasingly disaffected "Marion" is well portrayed by Corrin - all delivering a script that does enough to set the scene. It's a stylish production. Amazon have clearly thrown some money at it and combined with a pleasing score from Steven Price this presents us with a better than expected love story with just enough political sense to alert us to the difficulties faced by gay men as recently as 1957. Styles' participation in this movie is bound to raise the profile of the persecution culture that existed then, and still exists in many nations around the world now - and for that he also ought to be commended. It's a solid film, not a great one - but it is certainly worth a gander.

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