Overview
- The film marks Araki’s return to features after roughly a decade in television and was acquired for U.S. release by Magnolia Pictures ahead of its theatrical opening on Friday, July 31.
- I Want Your Sex follows artist Erika Tracy (Olivia Wilde) and her young assistant Elliot (Cooper Hoffman) in a kinky, role-reversed relationship that Araki developed from Karley Sciortino’s material with the explicit intent to avoid reproducing problematic older gender dynamics.
- Araki used an intimacy coordinator on the production for the first time in his career to manage the film’s sex scenes and said the project grew out of his reaction to reporting that Gen Z is having less sex.
- Early reviews published July 27–28 praise the cast’s energy and the film’s comic, provocative tone, while some critics say the movie can feel unsexy or thin on chemistry and emotional payoff between the leads.
- The movie’s festival run, including Sundance, Frameline and OutfestNEXT, positioned it as a conversation starter about consent, desire and generational attitudes toward sex and will likely shape public debate as it reaches wider audiences.