Pillion | Review
Sit & Deliver: Lighton Assumes Positions in Titillating Debut
There’s a melancholic seductiveness to Pillion, the directorial debut of Harry Lighton, based on the 2020 novella Box Hill by Adam Mars-Jones. Contemporizing the 1970s set bildungsroman to modern day, it concerns the sexual awakening of an aimless young man who enters a rigid, consensual relationship with an irresistible biker as a submissive to his Dominant. Such a blatant, matter-of-fact examination of this specific subculture earns a provocative deference for frankly portraying these dynamics in ways rarely seen cinematically broached with seriousness, the torch bearer of Larry Kramer and a whole slew of queer forefathers whose visibility on the crests of the sexual revolution were decimated by the AIDS crisis.… Read the rest
