‚Pillion‘ Trailer: Alexander Skarsgard wird nackt und versauter in A24s Gay S & M Romantic Comedy

A leather-clad Alexander Skarsgard gets hot and heavy in the new trailer for “Pillion,” a queer romantic dramedy about a biker gang leader who starts a BDSM relationship.

Based on the 2020 novel “Box Hill” by Adam Mars-Jones, the story follows a timid young gay man named Colin (Harry Melling) who meets Ray, the handsome leader of a motorbike club, who takes him on as his submissive while introducing him to the community of kinky, queer bikers. (The film is named for the person who sits on the back of a motorcycle.) Harry Lighton wrote and directed “Pillion” in his feature debut.

In the newly released teaser, Colin and Ray have a meet-cute at a bar before striking up a dom-sub partnership. As they get to know each other, Ray stands naked in front of Colin and then measures his chest for a harness. Later, the two roll around in cheeky wrestling outfits. Before the brief teaser ends, Ray hands Colin a shopping list and tells him to “buy yourself a butt plug. You’re too tight.”

Though the film has plenty of BDSM sex scenes, full-frontal nudity and elaborately choreographed orgies, “Pillion” isn’t trying to be the racier version of “50 Shades of Grey.” Vanity Fair’s critic Richard Lawson called the movie a “disarmingly poignant drama of discovery.”

In Variety’s review, chief film critic Peter Debruge described “Pillion” as “fairly light on analysis but not at all shy about showing the germ of one man’s titillating new turn-on.” He added that “laced with a wry sense of humor, ‘Pillion’ manages to be both understated and explicit in the way Lighton presents practically everything that happens in Colin and Ray’s unconventional relationship.”

“Pillion,” which will be released by A24, had its world premiere at Cannes Film Festival and was embraced with a seven-minute standing ovation. Before the screening, Lighton told the crowd at the Palais that he wanted the movie “to make you laugh, make you think, make you feel and make you horny.”