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I Want Your Sex

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United States202590 minEnglish
I Want Your Sex

When fresh-faced Elliot lands a job with artist and provocateur Erika Tracy, his fantasies come true as she taps him to become her sexual muse. But Elliot finds himself out of his depth as Erika takes him on a journey into a world of sex, obsession, power, betrayal, and murder.

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When fresh-faced Elliot lands a job with artist and provocateur Erika Tracy, his fantasies come true as she taps him to become her sexual muse. But Elliot finds himself out of his depth as Erika takes him on a journey into a world of sex, obsession, power, betrayal, and murder.

In writer-director Gregg Araki’s latest feature, a sex-forward Los Angeles art gallery hosts a delightfully enigmatic sadomasochistic game, as Cooper Hoffman’s eager Elliot is pushed to the edge by the sharply sardonic Erika, masterfully portrayed by Olivia Wilde. More than an art-world satire or a celebration of depravity, Araki and Karley Sciortino’s quick-witted writing and circular narrative structure reveal a spunky yet earnest reflection on the current state of sex — challenging misaligned conceptions of kink/predation, exhibition, and generational predispositions toward sexual freedom and autonomy.

I Want Your Sex is Araki’s 11th Sundance Film Festival premiere (following the episodic Now Apocalypse in 2019), constituting a fresh, prismatic validation of form for the auteur — an outrageously playful sexual crusade that only the one Gregg Araki could make. — CA

This film contains mature content and may not be appropriate for all ages.

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Screenings

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  • Jan 23, 6:15 PM MST
    Premiere

    Eccles Theatre

    Park City

  • Jan 24, 8:30 AM MST
    Screening

    Library Center Theatre

    Park City

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  • Jan 25, 2:30 PM MST
    Screening

    Rose Wagner Center

    Salt Lake City

  • Jan 28, 9:30 PM MST
    Screening

    Megaplex Redstone - 4

    Park City

  • Jan 31, 11:55 PM MST
    Screening

    The Ray Theatre

    Park City

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Credits

  • Director(s)

    Gregg Araki

  • Screenwriters

    Karley Sciortino

    Gregg Araki

  • Producers

    Gregg Araki

    Seth Caplan

    Teddy Schwarzman

    Michael Heimler

    Courtney L. Cunniff

    Karley Sciortino

  • Executive Producers

    Joanne Roberts Wiles

    John Friedberg

    Andrew Golov

  • Co-Producers

    Beau J. Genot

    Ezra Venetos

    Tom Lee

  • Cinematographer

    Tucker Korte

  • Production Design

    Angelique Clark

  • Costume Design

    Arianne Phillips

    Monica Chamberlain

  • Post-Production Supervisor

    Beau J. Genot

  • Editor

    Gregg Araki

  • Principal Cast

    Olivia Wilde

    Cooper Hoffman

    Mason Gooding

    Chase Sui Wonders

    Daveed Diggs

    Charli xcx

Meet the Artist

Panelist Name

Gregg Araki

    Gregg Araki, a fixture in indie film for over 30 years, is the writer-director of Mysterious Skin, White Bird in a Blizzard, and The Living End. He recently restored his cult classics The Doom Generation and Nowhere. For television, he worked on Dahmer, American Gigolo, and Now Apocalypse.

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