The movie has already received the thumbs up from critics, too.
Vanity Fair has hailed it arsenic “a frank, kinky, utterly idiosyncratic archetypal diagnostic from Lighton”, portion Deadline praised the “beautifully heartbreaking emotion story” acceptable “against a modern satellite of BDSM”.
The Daily Beast described Pillion arsenic “quite perchance the sexiest movie astatine Cannes this year, that’s besides delightfully tender”, portion The Guardian’s four-review said: “Here to beryllium there’s thing gentle astir existent emotion is an intensely English communicative of romance, devotion and nonaccomplishment from first-time diagnostic manager Harry Lighton, who has created thing comic and touching and alarming.”
An authoritative synopsis for the movie antecedently teased: “Colin, a weedy wallflower is letting beingness walk him by. That is until Ray, the impossibly handsome person of a motorbike club, takes him connected arsenic his submissive.
“Ray uproots Colin from his dreary suburban life, introducing him to a assemblage of kinky, queer bikers and taking each sorts of virginities on the way. But arsenic Colin steps deeper into Ray’s satellite of rules and mysteries, helium begins to question whether the beingness of a 24/7 submissive is for him. Has helium recovered his calling, oregon simply swapped 1 signifier of suffocation for another?”
Meanwhile, aboriginal successful Cannes, it looked similar Alexander had taken inspiration from his character, sporting immoderate knee-high Saint-Laurent boots connected the reddish carpet...