I Want Your Sex. 2026. USA. Directed by Gregg Araki. Screenplay by Araki, Karley Sciortino. With Cooper Hoffman, Olivia Wilde, Chase Sui Wonders. DCP courtesy Magnolia Pictures. 90 min.
Erika Tracy (Olivia Wilde) is LA’s hottest artist. Her erotically charged work is more popular than ever, and her reputation for sleeping with her studio assistants is an open secret. Enter Elliot (Cooper Hoffman), a dopey twentysomething desperate for a job in the arts and, more importantly, rent money. Soon after Erika hires Elliot, she propositions him for sex and introduces him to BDSM, catapulting him into a dizzying labyrinth of power dynamics in the bedroom and the studio.
Gregg Araki’s seminal Teen Apocalypse Trilogy (1993–97) transfixed a generation, reflecting the nihilism of American youth who grew up under Ronald Reagan amid the threat of AIDS—and were really pissed off as a result. Now 67 years old, Araki’s ’90s-era anger has shifted into a pervasive unease for Gen Z—economically and sexually—and the complications that arise when those two things collide. Never losing empathy for his characters (or a sense of humor), Araki delivers a delicately balanced, raucous send-up of the art world, workplace dynamics, and sexual power as only a distinctive auteur can.
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