Alexander Skarsgård doesn’t usually watch his movies more than once with an audience. But “Pillion,” in which he plays the enigmatic member of gay biker club who begins a dom-sub relationship with a younger, more inexperienced man, Colin (Harry Melling), has been an exception. He’s seen it at least four times.
It’s partly because “Pillion” has been coming out for so long. The film premiered last year at the Cannes Film Festival before going on to play at several others and is just now arriving in North American theaters. But mostly it's because it's a film that is never not interesting to experience with a crowd: It's both remarkably explicit in its depiction of sex and surprisingly sweet and comedic as Ray (Skarsgård's character) and Colin navigate the dynamics of their unconventional relationship.
