If Richard Curtis were to customize Michael Haneke’s “Piano Teacher” to a cozy and very Gay Christmas Movie, it may look like Harry Lighton’s Kinky, Fetish-On-ITs-Leve BDSM Romance ”Debris. ” Alexander Skarsgård stars like an enigmatic gay leather the opposite Harry who chooses as the shy traffic guard he takes under his wing – and under his dominance, but not really into his bed When Ray (Skarsgård) goes on to keep the emotion department. At the same time, Colin (Melling) hopes for something more and optimistic that he can get Ray to crack.
A24 release film At the beginning of next year after Raved-Bout performances in Cannes, Telluride, and the next, New York Film Festival. See below.
Author/director Lighton’s remarkably mature first feature easily adapts Adam Mars-Jone’s novel “Box Hill” for a subversive, wild graphic treatment-lush in all senses of the term. When he does not work in a parking garage as a traffic visitors, Colin also sings in a barbershop quartet, and it is in a dive, about the holiday, when Ray approaches and excludes him for a kind of date.
A push-push-pull begins when Ray begins to take over Colin’s life and vice versa. At the same time, at home, Colin helps his father (Douglas Hodge) take care of his sick mother (played by the great English actress Lesley Sharp). Eventually, Ray Colin pulls into a gay motorcycle society where he meets others in similar arrangements – until Colin can finally penetrate Ray emotionally, and perhaps more than Ray’s previous crowds. (Scissor Sisters Lead Jake Shears makes his actor as one of the submissions revolving around Ray.)
By the way, that term refers to the passenger seat on a motorcycle, but here is a hose for the passive partner in a relationship. But Colin does not remain passive for long.
Indieview -critic Ryan lattanzio (that’s me) loved this movie from CannesCalls the movie “A deeply touching love story, one where we become submissive to Lighton’s strange, beautiful and sexy vision.”
“Pillion” screens at the New York Film Festival on Saturday, October 4. A24 will release the movie Theatrically early 2026.
