Annual Top Films Lists

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

Published on January 8, 2022

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 Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member 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 served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).

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Annual Top Films Lists

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