The premise of Pillion alone should be enough to sell you on it. Harry Melling (whose breakout role was playing repugnant brat Dudley Dursley in the Harry Potter franchise) plays Colin, a sweet but drippy young man who gets swept off his feet by Alexander Skarsgård’s Ray, a sexy and mysterious member of a gay BDSM biker club. It’s a window into a fetish subculture with lots of outré sex, but at its core it’s a sweet, funny queer coming of age story. Just with, like, more cum.
It’s also a sublime piece of art. It’s outrageous that director Harry Lighton, 32, has made such an assured directorial debut. It’s already scooped him a BFI & Chanel Filmmaker Award, with the jury calling him an “exciting new filmmaking voice”. The hype, in this case, is earned.
