Film Review – Pillion

“Pillion” is based on the 2020 book, “Box Hill,” with author Adam Mars-Jones exploring the loneliness of a gay man unable to find a connection in the world, eventually locating relief from a most unusual person and his particular demands of attention. The story has apparently been shifted around quite a bit by writer/director Harry Lighton, but the core experience remains the same, getting into the tightness of feelings between two men attempting to work out a dominant/submissive relationship. Lighton (making his feature-length directorial debut with the endeavor) examines some dark emotional spaces along the way, but he’s mostly invested in something a tad warmer than expected, focusing on the eternal battle of need with what’s mostly an askew story of commitment that teases some unusual romantic directions. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com