{"id":2248800,"date":"2026-01-24T20:55:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T20:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2248800"},"modified":"2026-01-24T20:55:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T20:55:17","slug":"olivia-wilde-stars-in-wild-and-filthy-movie-i-want-your-sex-at-sundance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/olivia-wilde-stars-in-wild-and-filthy-movie-i-want-your-sex-at-sundance\/","title":{"rendered":"Olivia Wilde stars in wild and filthy movie \u2018I Want Your Sex\u2019 at Sundance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2026%2F01%2Fnewspress-collage-lqqczz8bt-1769284833211.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall%261769266900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--review alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module__inner\">\n\t\t<span class=\"inline-module--review__eyebrow subsection-heading-semi__label\"><br \/>\n\t\t\tmovie 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Not yet rated.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>PARK CITY, Utah \u2014 Sundance\u2019s annual carnival of carnality comes this year in the form of \u201cI Want Your Sex,\u201d director Gregg Araki\u2019s explicit new comedy starring Olivia Wilde that premiered Friday.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s got something for everybody \u2014 toplessness, threesomes, dildos, ball gags, S&amp;M and, of course, art-world satire.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Wilde plays a once-successful and swaggering artist named Erika Tracy whose primary interest is on what goes down in the bedroom.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For example, she makes her assistants stick their chewed bubblegum on a line-drawing of a woman\u2019s nether regions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, another title for this movie could be \u201cHR?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although, unlike another steamy boss-employee daliance film, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/09\/11\/entertainment\/babygirl-review-nicole-kidman-scorches-in-shocking-intern-sex-drama\/\">\u201cBabygirl\u201d with Nicole Kidman<\/a>, Araki\u2019s style and scenery are fanciful, almost like being in a neon dollhouse. Reality isn\u2019t the point.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Elliott (Cooper Hoffman) and Erika (Olivia Wilde) enter a dangerous romance in \u201cI Want Your Sex.\u201d  <span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of Sundance Institute; Lacey Terrell<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In the opening seconds of his movie, Erika is lying face down in a swimming pool \u2014 \u201cSunset Boulevard\u201d-style \u2014 while a young man named Elliot (Cooper Hoffman), wearing pink lingerie, screams bloody murder.<\/p>\n<p>Nine and half weeks earlier, Gen. Z\u2019er Elliot is obsessed with Erika. One night in bed he\u2019s watching one of her videos next to his girlfriend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s the difference between this and porn?,\u201d asks the buzzkill (Charli xcx).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLighting, context,\u201d he says practically drooling.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--more inline-module--columnist inline-module--more--thirds\">\n<div class=\"inline-module__inner\">\n<h2 class=\"inline-module__heading subsection-heading subsection-heading--single-line \">\n\t\t\tMore From\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"subsection-heading__sub\">Johnny Oleksinski<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Araki, who\u2019s very funny, seems to be talking tongue-in-cheek about his own flesh-filled movie there.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-three-year-old Elliot applies for a job with Erika, and within a week she offers him something much more enticing than being her subordinate. The dominant boss, almost 15 years his senior, wants him to be her submissive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHR?!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The sexy movie, which plateaus about two thirds of the way through and ends poorly, sees their exploits escalate in extremity. Let\u2019s just say Elliott is faced with objects far beyond the confines of his naive imagination. <\/p>\n<p>Erika\u2019s most ardent belief is that Gen. Z are a bunch of prudes who destructively throw away the best years of their lives to stare at their phones. <\/p>\n<p>When she\u2019s right she\u2019s right. And Elliott fast becomes her most devoted disciple. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Olivia Wilde attends the Sundance Film Festival. <span class=\"credit\">FilmMagic<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The 22-year-old Hoffman\u2019s infectious enthusiasm and innocent attitude as Wilde\u2019s Erika ups the ante is what gives the film its charm.<\/p>\n<p>However, this is not a romance like \u201c50 Shades of Gray.\u201d The feelings in \u201cI Want Your Sex\u201d are one-sided. Erika wants his sex; Elliot wants her sex and emotional affection.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That miscommunication plus hormones plus booze leads to disaster for everybody, including his best friend Apple (Chase Sui Wonders), who\u2019s been living vicariously through Elliot\u2019s sexual liberation.<\/p>\n<p>Wilde\u2019s Erika, who\u2019s all business, even during pleasure, is as if Elizabeth Banks\u2019 commentator character\u00a0 from \u201cPitch Perfect\u201d pivoted to painting. Ridiculous and proud of it. And she clicks with Hoffman, but he could find chemistry with a spatula.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The team of \u201cI Want Your Sex.\u201d  <span class=\"credit\">FilmMagic<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI Want Your Sex\u201d marks his biggest role since 2021\u2019s \u201cLicorice Pizza,\u201d which was one of the best acting debuts of the decade. Elliot plays to his strengths, which is being simultaneously powerful and puppy dog.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This movie won\u2019t be seen by as many people. It\u2019s too peculiar and uninhibited for most audiences. If you couldn\u2019t handle \u201cBabygirl,\u201d this will make you hurl your TV out the window.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But this is the size and type of role Hoffman should regularly be playing \u2014 minus the ball gag and pink bra.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>movie review I WANT YOUR SEX Running time: 90 minutes. Not yet rated. 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