This week, A24 released the home video version of the award-winning indie film Pillion, a tonally daring gay romantic drama adapted from the cult 2020 novel Box Hill.
Subtitled “A Story of Low Self-Esteem,” the novel by Adam Mars-Jones — who co-wrote Pillion’s script with director Harry Lighton — chronicles the ups and downs of a BDSM relationship between kink newbie Colin and strapping sadist biker Ray, an often leather-clad (and un-clad) statuesque disciplinarian right out of a Tom of Finland fantasy.
The theatrical version which opened in early February in the U.S., and played until recently nationwide, stars Harry Melling as the besotted Colin and Hollywood’s current perverse, pansexual demigod on speed-dial, Alexander Skarsgård, as Ray. That version had lingering shots of Ray’s penis (a lifelike, girthy prosthetic), extended — and unusually graphic for mainstream — depictions of sex between the leads, and a hefty amount of Dolby-enhanced grunting and moaning.
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