Pillion Portrays Intense Kink-Driven Gay Romance

Harry Lighton’s debut feature Pillion, which premiered at Cannes last year and won Best Screenplay, receives a detailed Slate review focused on its explicit BDSM sex scenes between Alexander Skarsgård and Harry Melling. Critics praise the film’s realistic, sophisticated portrayal of a power-exchange relationship and note its 100 percent Rotten Tomatoes score, highlighting how consent and masculine performance shape its emotional arc.