"It's a task of firsts: known for his award-winning short films, was the debut feature for 33-year-old Brit Lighton. It's certainly not the first time the queer leather community has been captured on film, but it is the first film to bring the subculture to mainstream cinema screens globally, bag three BAFTA Award nominations, and star two bona fide Hollywood heavyweights."
"Those stars are Alexander Skarsgård and Harry Melling, who become embroiled in a knotty, titillating and, it turns out, contentious dom-sub romance. Melling's character Colin, a meek and dowdy traffic warden by day and barbershop quarter performer by night, begins the film with his own meaty task at hand. It involves Skarsgård's smouldering BDSM biker Ray round the back of a Primark in South London, his leather trousers unzipped, his Prince Albert out. Colin is on his knees. No further explanation required."
"From there on in, their relationship becomes a push and pull between Colin's seeming desire for a more tender, conventional relationship, and Ray's aloofness, as he maintains the boundaries of the dom-top agreement they supposedly have. Colin sleeps on the floor; Ray in the bed. Colin goes shopping for groceries and butt plugs; Ray goes out biking. Colin wants Ray to meet his family; Ray would, if he spoke, say he'd rather die."
Directors Harry Melling and Harry Lighton tackled a debut feature that foregrounds the queer leather subculture. The film centers on Colin, a meek traffic warden, and Ray, a smouldering BDSM biker, whose encounter behind a Primark sets a charged dom-sub relationship in motion. The narrative examines Colin's yearning for tenderness and conventional intimacy against Ray's strict dom-top boundaries and aloofness. Scenes depict domestic and sexual negotiations, from sleeping arrangements to shopping for butt plugs. The film, based on Adam Mars-Jones's novel Box Hill, reached mainstream cinemas globally, attracted large leather-community audiences, and received three BAFTA nominations.
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