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MOVIE REVIEW: Harry Styles' celebrity overshadows the bloodless period drama of MyPoliceman.

In late 1950s Brighton, a policeman is courting a schoolteacher. Marion is pretty but bookish and surprised that Tom has shown an interest in her. In a swimming pool where he is giving her lessons, she hangs back just to admire his beauty. It’s a telling moment for two reasons: a tacit recognition that many viewers will come to this film just to gawk at Styles, an international pop star, and a portent of the at-a-remove quality that will dog the rest of the film.

Soon, Marion and Tom gain a friend, a slightly older museum curator named Patrick who expands their worldviews to include art and opera and gourmet food; he becomes their constant companion. Only later, when the origins of their friendships are retold from a different perspective, do we realize that Patrick’s role is not what it seems.

I’ve been tiptoeing around the particulars of the plot, which the trailer makes plain, so if you want to go in blind, you should skip the next paragraph completely. What Marion doesn’t know is that Tom and Patrick have fallen in love and continue their affair even after she and Tom have married. The script – by Ron Nyswaner , adapted from Bethan Roberts’ book – effectively conveys the terrors of the times, in which homosexuality was illegal and a back alley tryst could get you beaten and arrested, and Patrick’s own experience with police brutality complicates his attraction to the man he calls “my policeman” in his diary.

Forbidden love! Terrible betrayals! Decades-old repressed truths! The plot elements are all there for something emotional wrecking, but Grandage and his cast approach it with such enormous restraint, the oxygen is cut off completely. This is bloodless filmmaking.Call theatre for complete list of movies and showtimes.

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