I Want Your Sex

After years away from features, Gregg Araki, the cult author of The Doom Generation and Mysterious Skin, delivers one of the year's most talked about comebacks with I Want Your Sex. Premiering at Sundance in January 2026 and picked up by Magnolia Pictures, the film brings together an eclectic cast led by Olivia Wilde and Cooper Hoffman, alongside Mason Gooding, Chase Sui Wonders, Daveed Diggs and pop star Charli XCX, with Johnny Knoxville as an off kilter detective. The Sundance Institute called it a wickedly smart, provocative erotic thriller that blends black comedy, social satire and sexuality explored without moralizing filters yet never tipping into gratuitousness.

The film opened in American theaters on July 31, 2026 with an R rating, distributed in Italy by 01 Distribution. Araki revisits the themes that have defined his career, desire as a destabilizing force, toxic bonds, generational chaos, updated for an era of dating apps and fluid identity, with a visual style indebted to his nineties films but carrying renewed energy. Critics especially praised its boldness in tackling polyamory, sex work and female desire without self satisfaction, while noting an occasionally over the top tone.

A film that pulled the most provocative independent director of his generation back into the spotlight, proving the vitality of arthouse erotic cinema.