It certainly is for Patrick, and Dawson and Styles go for it with no holding back in a bedroom scene that leaves little to the imagination. It is a continuing game of deception even as Marion gets increasingly frustrated, perhaps suspecting something but trying to win the kind of lover in Tom that just isn’t there. With homosexuality illegal at the time, Patrick also has to watch himself, but one day alone with Tom makes a move that leads to a very physical and steamy clandestine affair that both keep secret from Marion. Eventually though, in the most proper of ways, Tom and Marion get married, not a loveless union but not a passionate one and one where Marion can’t seem to hold back her jealousy of the “friendship” between Tom and Patrick. Plotwise, Harry Styles in his second film of the festival season after last week’s Venice debut of Don’t Worry Darling, plays British policeman Tom, who is befriended by lively museum curator Patrick ( David Dawson), as well as a shier school teacher Marion ( Emma Corrin, also in a second fest movie this week after the debut of Lady Chatterley’s Lover) who because of the times must contain her own growing sexual attraction to Tom.
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