Pillion. 2025. Written and directed by Harry Lighton

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Pillion. 2025. UK. Directed by Harry Lighton. Courtesy A24

Pillion. 2025. UK. Written and directed by Harry Lighton. With Harry Melling, Alexander Skarsgård. DCP courtesy A24. 107 min.

The things we do for love. Devotion takes many forms in Harry Lighton’s astonishingly assured feature debut. Colin (Harry Melling) is a shy, horny guy, timidly open to connections that may lure him out of his middlebrow cocoon. With the encouragement of his loving, if somewhat vanilla, parents, he ventures out to find Mister Right (or Mister Right Now). The “mister” he finds turns out to be a leather-clad biker and BDSM “Master” named Ray (Alexander Skarsgård), and what transpires between them swerves between carnal and caring, brutal and utterly romantic. Pillion was a breakout hit at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Best Screenplay prize in the “Un Certain Regard” section.

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