Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #75. Michael Grandage’s My Policeman

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My Policeman

After about two decades as an award-winning British theatre director, Michael Grandage made the move into feature films beginning with his 2016 debut Genius — a Berlin Film Festival selection starring Nicole Kidman, Jude Law, Colin Firth and Laura Linney. He followed that up with a sophomore book to film project in April of last year with Harry Styles, Emma Corrin, David Dawson, Linus Roache, Rupert Everett and Kadiff Kirwan in a mostly London backdrop. My Policeman is an Amazon Studios project based on the screenplay written by celebrated scribe Ron Nyswaner. Grandage reteams with cinematographer Ben Davis here for a period piece triage drama.

Gist: Set in the 1950s in Brighton, a gay policeman named Tom marries a school teacher named Marion while being in a relationship with Patrick, a museum curator. The secret they share threatens to ruin them all.

Release Date/Prediction: We think Amazon will set the table for a Venice Film Festival premiere.

Eric Lavallée
Eric Lavalléehttps://www.ericlavallee.com
Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist, and critic at IONCINEMA.com, established in 2000. A regular at Sundance, Cannes, and Venice, Eric holds a BFA in film studies from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013, he served on the narrative competition jury at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson’s "This Teacher" (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022, he was a New Flesh Juror for Best First Feature at the Fantasia International Film Festival. His top films for 2023 include The Zone of Interest (Glazer), Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell (Pham Thien An), Totem (Lila Avilés), La Chimera (Alice Rohrwacher), All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt (Raven Jackson). He is a Golden Globes Voter.

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