Screaming Fans Greet Film Fest Premiere for a Glimpse of Harry Styles
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Sunday night at the Toronto Film Festival felt more like a concert than a film premiere as thousands of fans descended on the Princess of Wales theater hours before the premiere of My Policeman starring Harry Styles.
According to The Hollywood Reporter (and verified on the festivals Instagram feed), “My Policeman, in which the musician stars as a closeted homosexual in 1950s England, had its world premiere at the Princess of Wales theatre, where a six-person deep crowd had already been gathering behind barriers many hours before the film had even started.”
From director Michael Grandage and based on the novel by Bethan Roberts, My Policeman sees Styles play Tom, a police officer living in Brighton in the 1950s who develops feelings for museum curator Patrick (David Dawson). While the two keep their relationship a secret due to the repressive laws of the time, Tom marries local schoolteacher Marion (Emma Corrin), whose jealousy would have destructive consequences. Shifting to the 1990s, the three (played by Linus Roache, Rupert Everett and Gina McKee, respectively) are still reeling with regret but seek to repair the damage done 40 years earlier.
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THR‘s review says that while the film’s director lets Styles and co-star David Dawson, “get nude and sweaty, rolling around in a golden haze — lots of arched backs, hungry hands and eyes dilated in rapturous transport — that should at least set Styles fans’ hearts aflutter, albeit while remaining fairly decorous. But stodgy storytelling and clunky shifts between the drama’s two time periods dim the afterglow.”
My Policeman is to open in theaters October 21 before streaming beginning November 4 on Amazon Prime Video.
Watch the trailer below.
You can watch the TIFF press conference for the movie below.
