"This year's Sundance Film Festival promises a somewhat elegiac atmosphere. For starters, this is the last time the festival will take place in snowy Park City, Utah, its home since 1981. (Next year, Sundance will take up residence in similarly snowy Boulder, Colorado.) Adding to the mournful vibe is the still fresh loss of Robert Redford, the festival's founder and presiding spirit, who died in September."
"Araki, who's been Sundance royalty since his New Queer Cinema gem The Living End bowed back in 1992, also returns this year with the much-anticipated I Want Your Sex, his first project since his (also Sundance-premiering) 2019 episodic venture Now Apocalypse. This time, Araki's penchant for sexual provocation manifests in an age-gap affair between characters played by Cooper Hoffman and Olivia Wilde."
This year's Sundance Film Festival carries an elegiac atmosphere as it holds its final edition in snowy Park City before moving to Boulder, Colorado. The festival is marked by the recent deaths of founder Robert Redford and Tammie Rosen. The legacy slate highlights anniversary screenings that underscore Sundance's identity of championing indie stalwarts and supporting emerging filmmakers. Celebrated films include Little Miss Sunshine and Half Nelson (20th anniversaries) and Barbara Koppel's American Factory (35th anniversary), while a 4K restoration of Gregg Araki's Mysterious Skin plays alongside Araki's new I Want Your Sex, featuring an age-gap affair between characters played by Cooper Hoffman and Olivia Wilde.
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