I Want Your Sex

United States202590 minEnglish

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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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.

Available in person only.

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Screenings

in persononline not available

Jan 23, 6:15 PM MST
Premiere
Eccles Theatre
Park City
Closed Caption
Jan 24, 8:30 AM MST
Screening
Library Center Theatre
Park City
Open Caption
ASL (Q&A only)
Jan 25, 2:30 PM MST
Screening
Rose Wagner Center
Salt Lake City
Closed Caption
Jan 28, 9:30 PM MST
Screening
Megaplex Redstone - 4
Park City
Closed Caption
Jan 31, 11:55 PM MST
Screening
The Ray Theatre
Park City
Closed Caption

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
Co-Editor
Victor de la Parra
Principal Cast
Olivia Wilde
Cooper Hoffman
Mason Gooding
Chase Sui Wonders
Daveed Diggs
Charli xcx

Website
https://blackbearpictures.com
Contact
Heather Phillips
hphillips@blackbearpictures.com
4242916000

Meet the Artist

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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