Country: UK
Year: 2025
Duration: 103'
Colin, a shy and humble thirty-year-old, falls in love with Ray, a handsome and seemingly unattainable motorcyclist, who, in reality, takes him in and turns him into the slave of a strict BDSM relationship. Colin moves in with Ray and obeys his every command in exchange for a few scraps of sex. But is love really so impossible? The comedy that made Cannes fall in love, starring the talented Harry Melling and Alexander Skarsgård.
Biography
film director
Harry Lighton
(Portsmouth, United Kingdom, 1992) is a writer and director currently based in London. His debut short, Sunday Morning Coming Down, played at Academy/BAFTA-recognised festivals worldwide, and was nominated for the 2017 Iris Prize for Best British Short. His short Wren Boys was nominated for Best British Short at the 2018 BAFTAs. It was also shortlisted for a BIFA, won Best UK Short at the UK Film Festival, and had its US Premiere at Sundance. His debut feature film, Pillion, starring Harry Melling and Alexsander Skarsgard premiered at Cannes Film Festival 2025, going on to win the Un Certain Regard award for Best Screenplay.
FILMOGRAFIA
Sunday Morning Coming Down (cm, 2016), Knitlab: XY (cm, 2016), Look at Me (cm, 2017), Wren Boys (cm, 2017), Leash (cm, 2018), Pompeii (cm, 2019), Pillion (2025).
Declaration
film director
“I was sent the novel it’s based on (Box Hill by Adam Mars Jones) at the start of the pandemic. I found it sexy, funny, moving, thought-provoking – all the good things. And I felt an immediate affinity with the psychologies of both the lead characters. I knew my adaption would involve big changes, but when I met with Adam he gave me complete freedom to go in whatever direction I fancied.”
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR: Harry Lighton. SCREENPLAY: Harry Harry Lighton, based on the novel Box Hill by Adam Mars-Jones. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Nick Morris. FILM EDITING: Gareth C. Scales. PRODUCTION DESIGN: Francesca Massariol. COSTUME DESIGN: Grace Snell. MUSIC: Oliver Coates. SOUND: Gunnar Óskarsson, Christopher Wilson. CAST: Alexander Skarsgård, Harry Melling, Lesley Sharp, Douglas Hodge, Anthony Welsh, Jake Shears, Billy King, Paul Tallis, Jake Sharp, Rosie Sheehy, Miranda Bell. PRODUCTION: Lee Groombridge, Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, Emma Norton for BBC Film, British Film Institute (BFI), Element Pictures.
CONTACT: I Wonder bonazelli@iwonderpictures.com
