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MY POLICEMAN REVIEW – HARRY STYL IS ARRTGLY AWKWARD STODGY GAY ROMANCE
* my policeman gay film *
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But Tom and Patrick are closer than seems and, at a time when beg gay was still illegal, their affair threatens to stroy everythg. The queerns do ltle to differentiate the triangle om so many others we’ve already seen and what’s tratg for those wh even a cursory knowledge of gay cema is that so many films before have refully navigated siarly tricky terrory wh ease and sight, om Basil Dearn’s Victim and William Wyler’s adaptatn of The Children’s Hour both 1961, Jam Ivory’s Mrice 1987 and, more recently, Terence Davi’s vastatg Benedictn.