Alexander Skarsgård and Harry Melling embrace the bizarre, erotic, and emotionally fraught in Pillion, a film that’s as much a tender romance as it is a kink-informed journey of self-discovery. Directed by Harry Lighton in his feature debut, the movie features Melling as a nice suburban London boy who opens up, in more ways than one, when he begins a relationship with Skarsgård’s leather-clad biker, becoming his submissive. (The film’s title refers to the seat occupied by the passenger riding behind the driver on a motorcycle and, in the U.K., is also queer parlance for a bottom.)
Pillion, which premiered in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section and bows at the Zurich Film Festival on Sept. 29, leans hard into authenticity, embracing the awkward transitions of intimacy rather than sanitizing them. As The Hollywood Reporter‘s review notes, “abuse, low-key cringe humor and unexpectedly sweet romance somehow co-exist…
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