‘It is in 1950s’ Brighton that Marion first catches sight of Tom,’ runs the film’s synopsis. In essence, it’s a very sharp-edged love triangle between a closeted policeman, Tom Burgess (Styles), his doting wife, Marion Taylor (Corrin), and museum curator Patrick Hazelwood (Dawson), the man Tom falls in love with – a recipe for euphoria, pain and longing.
Photograph: "My Policeman" Filmset What is My Policeman about? The supporting cast is more than decent, too, though, with Emma Corrin – Princess Diana in season four of The Crown – playing his wife and David Dawson ( The Last Kingdom) as the museum curator he falls hard for.Īnd representing the characters in their later years, four decades on, will be Batman Begins’ Linus Roache in the Styles role, alongside Notting Hill’s Gina McKee and Rupert Everett as his once-secret lover. The headline act, if course, is Styles as the closeted gay policeman at the heart of the story. Yes, there’s a teaser trailer to offer a brief showcase of its forbidden love and melancholy tenor.
That’s just under a month after Don’t Worry Darling hits our screens, so expect to see Styles’s handsome mug on many posters in the autumn. It’ll be in UK cinemas on October 21, before streaming on Amazon Prime from November 4. Alongside Olivia Wilde’s Don’t Worry Darling, in which he plays one half of a young married couple in too deep in a supposedly utopian Californian community, he’s the headline act in an adaptation of Bethan Roberts’s 2012 novel, ‘My Policeman’, about a closeted cop living and loving through the institutionalised homophobia of ’50s Britain. The one-time One Direction-er and occasional Taylor Swift lyric has a new album and two new films due out in cinemas – both shaping up to be provocative, progressive and all-round essential viewing.
This is officially Harry Styles’s year and we’re just living in it, absorbing all the good vibes.
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