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Alexander Skarsgård Does a Lot Without Words in This Salty-Sweet BDSM Romance
Pillion, which just premiered at Cannes, is an unexpectedly sweet movie about a young man meeting the leather daddy of his dreams.
Colin (Harry Melling), the mild-mannered hero of Pillion, lives at home in Bromley, works in parking enforcement, sings in a barbershop quartet for fun, and goes on blind dates with equally polite men arranged by his enthusiastic mother. This tension gives Pillion a melancholy heart but also results in a film that is, chain collars and ass-eating aside, surprisingly mild at its core — or, at least, it ends up positioning dominance and submission in counterpoint to emotional intimacy in a way that echoes E.L. James more than you might expect. He has tattoos of his dogs’ names at the center of his muscled chest, sits around reading Karl Ove Knausgård, and generally has the air of a Tom of Finland sketch that has sprung to life and decided to live in suburban London.
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