Pillion, concerning the BDSM relationship between a homosexual biker and a timid parking, kickstarted an exuberant eight-minute ovation from the viewers that included Pedro Pascal after its premiere Sunday on the Cannes Movie Pageant.
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The kinky pic from British first-time function writer-director Harry Lighton follows the burgeoning odd-couple pairing of the good-looking and charismatic Ray (Alexander Skarsgård) and introverted however curious Colin (Harry Melling). The biker gang chief introduces Colin to his neighborhood and takes him on as his sexual submissive.
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In his Deadline assessment, Glenn Garner wrote: “Beneath the unabashed sexual content material, Lighton’s debut is all romance, kicking off with a French rendition of ‘I Will Comply with Him,’ foreshadowing the hopeless devotion Colin develops for Ray of their dom/sub relationship. … Skarsgård understood the project, slipping seamlessly into his position because the sexually dominant but elusive Ray, who’s fearless in speaking his each need, however emotionally closed off to any actual intimacy because the chief of a homosexual biker gang.”
The screenplay was developed with BBC Movie and relies on Adam Mars-Jones’ Field Hill, which was the 2019 Fitzcarraldo Editions Nobel Prize winner. A24 picked up U.S. distribution rights to Pillion in October.
It’s an Component Photos manufacturing financed by BBC Movie, BFI — which awarded it Nationwide Lottery funding — in affiliation with Fremantle, Picturehouse Leisure and September Movie; the latter two will deal with distribution within the UK and Benelux, respectively. Memento will deliver it to France cinemas.
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