My Policeman
2022
**½
Director: Michael Grandage
Cast: Harry Styles, Emma Corrin, Gina McKee, Linus Roache, David Dawson, Rupert Everett, Jack Bandeira
In the late 1950, Marion, her future husband Tom, and his friend Patrick become inseparable. However, Marion is unaware that Tom and Patrick are secretly having an affair (in a period when homosexuality was illegal). This romantic drama was adapted from a 2012 novel by Bethan Roberts. It has all the required elements for a thought-provoking tearjerker, but Ron Nyswaner's script never gets under the skin of these people, and the film ends up offering only surface-level drama. The story is framed in the present tense when the three characters are bitter 60-somethings, but these glacially paced scenes add nothing.
