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I Want Your Sex

USA | 2026 | 90 min. | Gregg Araki

When fresh-faced Elliot (Cooper Hoffman) lands an exciting job for renowned artist, icon, and provocateur Erika Tracy (Olivia Wilde), his fantasies come true as Erika taps him to become her sexual muse.

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Friday, May 15, 2026

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SIFF Cinema Downtown

9:15 PM

Saturday, May 16, 2026

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SIFF Cinema Uptown

2:45 PM

Is Generation Z too afraid of sex to bother with it anymore? If Greg Araki's latest film doesn't provide a definitive answer, it makes the case that today's 20-somethings need to embrace their inner horniness. Right off the bat, the film opens with a good reason for sexual fear: Elliot (Cooper Hoffman) emerges from a mansion wearing a blood-stained pink bra and panties, looking over the body of his female boss, floating face-down in a pool, à la Sunset Boulevard—the first of many Easter Egg pop-culture references. A title card then cuts to "9 ½ weeks earlier… " (wink!) when Elliot is interviewing to become an assistant to Erika Tracy (Olivia Wilde), an imperious artist-provocateur. Almost immediately, Erika and Elliot develop a dom/sub relationship, in which Elliot is commanded to perform increasingly adventurous sado-masochistic games, which Elliot finds surprisingly irresistible. In his first feature in a dozen years, Araki has fun casting against type—Charli XCX, Johnny Knoxville, and Margaret Cho each play dead-serious, unsmiling characters. While the film begins with the thriller elements of a murder mystery, it is mostly a campy send-up of America's recent hard-right turn on social mores and a celebration of sex-positive experimentation.

—Randy Woods

  • Director: Gregg Araki
  • Principal Cast: Olivia Wilde, Cooper Hoffman, Mason Gooding, Chase Sui Wonders, Daveed Diggs, Charli XCX
  • Country: USA
  • Year: 2026
  • Running Time: 90 min.
  • Producer: Gregg Araki, Seth Caplan, Teddy Schwarzman, Michael Heimler, Courtney L. Cunniff, Karley Sciortino
  • Screenplay: Karley Sciortino, Gregg Araki
  • Cinematographers: Tucker Korte
  • Editors: Gregg Araki, Victor de la Parra
  • Filmography: White Bird in a Blizzard (2014), Kaboom (2010), Smiley Face (2007), Mysterious Skin (2004), Splendor (1999), Nowhere (1997), The Doom Generation (1995), Totally F***ed Up (1993), The Living End (1992), O’Despair (1989), Three Bewildered People in the Night (1987)
  • Language: English
  • US Distributor: Magnolia Pictures
  • International Sales: CAA Film Sales (US/NA); Black Bear International (INTL)