Lena, aged twenty, wants to know all she can about life and reality. She collects information on everyone and everything, storing her findings in an enormous archive. She experiments with ...
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Title: I Am Curious (Yellow) (1967)
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| Complete credited cast: | |||
| Lena Nyman | ... | Lena Nyman | |
| Vilgot Sjöman | ... | Vilgot Sjöman | |
| Börje Ahlstedt | ... | Börje | |
| Peter Lindgren | ... | Rune Nyman | |
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Chris Wahlström | ... | Rune's Woman |
| Marie Göranzon | ... | Marie | |
| Magnus Nilsson | ... | Magnus | |
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Ulla Lyttkens | ... | Ulla |
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| Andreas Bellis | ... | Himself - Assistant Camera | |
| Evgeniy Evtushenko | ... | Himself (as Jevtusjenko) | |
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Marianne Johnson | ... | Herself - Script Girl |
| Martin Luther King | ... | Himself (as Martin Luther King Jr.) | |
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Raymond Lundberg | ... | Himself - Recording Supervisor |
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Lena Malmsjö | ... | Herself - Production Coordinator |
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Christer Oestberg | ... | Himself - Sound Assistant (as Christer Ostberg) |
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Lena, aged twenty, wants to know all she can about life and reality. She collects information on everyone and everything, storing her findings in an enormous archive. She experiments with relationships, political activism, and meditation. Meanwhile, the actors, director and crew are shown in a humorous parallel plot about the making of the film and their reactions to the story and each other. Nudity, explicit sex, and controversial politics kept this film from being shown in the US while its seizure by Customs was appealed. Written by Molly Malloy <mailcall@ansel.intersource.com>
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Country:
SwedenLanguage:
SwedishRelease Date:
10 March 1969 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Gross USA:
$20,238,100Cumulative Worldwide Gross:
$27,700,000Company Credits
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MonoColor:
Black and WhiteAspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1
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This film is part of the Criterion Collection, spine #180. See more »Quotes
Magnus, Lena's school friend: Are there any interesting social cases here? People in sleazy flats? People with unpaid dental bills? Drug cases will do, too. I work for "Expressen" the paper with a sting. My paper is planning a conservative victory in the '68 elections. We're doing a series on the ten most sordid social welfare cases.See more »
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Opening credits as follows: (voiceover, sung) Sandrews makes good films (on screen) "Lena Nyman, theatre student, age 22" (on screen) "Vilgot Sjoeman, director, age 42" (on screen) "Jag aer nyfiken" [I Am Curious], three times (voiceover) Buy our film, the only film that comes in two versions, one yellow, one blue. Same but different, that is true! Unique to view, the one that's blue. Ugly and nice, we repeat it twice: this is the yellow version, yes, the yellow version! (on screen) "en film i gult" [a yellow film] See more »Alternate Versions
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Fascinating I approached I Am Curious (Yellow) and it's companion piece with great trepidation. I'd read numerous reports on its widely touted controversy and explicit sex. What I got wasn't this, but a thoroughly thought provoking and engaging cinema experience unlike any other. I sincerely believe that the majority of the commenter who felt the film was `lame' or `boring' approached the film as if it were pornography. Perhaps this is pornography, assuming pornography is something intended to titillate the senses, but it is intentionally un-erotic. Lena, the protagonist, throws her all into her performance giving it a realistic and humanity that is simply convincing and enduring. Her breasts may be saggy, her nipples unusually large, her thighs fat, and her face, chubby. But by the end of the film, the audience comes to identify with her, and accept her faults as human. This touch gives her even more believability out necessity. Had the director cast a Briget Bardot bombshell the effect would have been nullified. I cannot more highly recommend this thought provoking piece. Be prepared to invest much thought in this deliberately paced film. The patient and unassuming viewer will be thoroughly rewarded in ways most other films could dream.