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Pillion (2025)

Run Time: 1:46:00
Producer: Lee Groombridge, Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe
Director: Harry Lighton
Writer: Harry Lighton, Adam Mars-Jones
Key Cast: Harry Melling, Alexander Skarsgård, Douglas Hodge

FILM MAKERS

Pillion is a 2025 romantic dark comedy drama film written and directed by Harry Lighton, based on the 2020 novel Box Hill by Adam Mars-Jones. The film stars Harry Melling as a timid gay man and Alexander Skarsgård as an enigmatic biker who start a BDSM relationship. The film’s name, Pillion, is of course, the British term for the passenger seat behind the driver on a motorcycle, which serves as a metaphor for the submissive role in Colin and Ray’s BDSM relationship.

Director Harry Lighton spent a weekend with real members of the Gay Bikers Motorcycle Club, members of which who later served as advisors for the film and appeared in it as members of the gay biker gang. The members of the GBMCC also attended the film’s premiere at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival

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SUMMARY

The most romantic film ever made.

A directionless man is swept off his feet when an enigmatic, impossibly handsome biker takes him on as his submissive. A sensual, funny and thoroughly unconventional love story.

It wouldn’t be Cannes without a good scandal film. For 2025, British director Harry Lighton’s feature debut Pillion may be the one that sends the most people clutching their pearls. Centered on a dom-sub relationship within the gay biker milieu, it features depictions of fetishistic sex acts that could trigger a few sensitive souls. It would be a shame, however, if all attention is directed at the kinks and shocks––Lighton has made a truly provocative anti-romance that’s funny, honest, strangely touching. It’s an exceptional balance act that makes Pillion the unlikeliest crowd-pleaser. – Read more in The Film Stage review.

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