Inspired by the true story of novelist E.M. Forster’s forty-year love life with a policeman, the film squanders a promising opportunity, for it neither captures the tragic lives of gay and bisexual men nor the straight women in their lives.
My Policeman ensures that despite their relationship’s foretold end, viewers will experience the heartbreak alongside the characters as they attempt to navigate the ramifications of the 1950s’ restrictive social culture.