NYFF Review: 'Pillion' is a Prince Albert Piercing Through the Heart

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Tender as the gentle brush of a flogger down the backside, writer-director Harry Lighton’s Pillion is the sweetest, hottest master-servant romance we’re been served in decades—since Maggie Gyllenhaal crawled on all fours for James Spader in Secretary , at least. Starring the singular Harry Melling (best known for playing that little shit Dudley in the Harry Potter movies) as a lost soul who finds himself by begging for scraps from the foot of Alexander Skarsgård ’s bed (and yeah, relatable), Lighton has with his feature-film debut gifted us with one of the most unexpected love stories of our age. A willing submission of self as satisfying as a single well-earned “Good

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